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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970was created. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network," which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and ititially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD-The earliest form of multiplayers games was debuted
The precurser to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUd (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. -
The First Online Shopping Site
Shopping
Minitel becomes the first ever site to make purchases online, check the share market, search the telephone directory, and chat with others. -
The domain name system was created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the INternet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address. -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
First web page created 1991
Brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
First internet banner ad
First Banner Ad
The first banner ad was created to promote 7 art museums and ended up making billions of dollars, since people couldn't resist clicking on the ad. -
First Social Networking Site
BBS
BBS, the first social networking site, was made to offer information, news, and files for people in your town. -
Netflix is Created
Netflix
NetFlix.com is created by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in an attempt to rent and sell DVDs over the internet. The company went public in 2002. -
Google.com is Created
Google
Larry Paige and Sergey Brin collaborated on the idea of organizing an infinite amount of information on the web. They worked on a search engine called BackRub, which operated on Stanford servers for a little more than a year, eventually taking up too much space and slowing everything down. A year later, Google was born. -
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Billionth personal computer sold
personal computer
This was the billionth personal computer sold worldwide since the mid 1970s. -
Facebook is Created
facebook
Mark Zuckerberg was the founder of Facebook in 2004 and created it along with his college dormates, while studying at Harvard University. It is, today, the one of the largest social media websites in the world. -
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First Tweet
twitter
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, sent the 1st tweet saying, "just setting up my twttr."
