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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
The first hosts on what would one day
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Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the
"interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
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) -
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 modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
The precursor 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 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
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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
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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. -
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. -
Amazon WebsiteThe website Amazon was created and used for only books at the time.
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Yahoo Search EngineThe website yahoo was created, but it was only used as a directory.
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Google Search EngineGoogle launched and quickly became the #1 search engine within a few years.
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MyspaceMySpace was initially created on this date and launched publically in August 2003 and become very popular.
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apple press infoThe site to pair with ipods, Itunes, was released and revolutionized apples music industry.
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skype websiteSkype was created by Dane Janus Friis and Swede Niklas. Skype was later acquired by Microsoft in May 2011 for $8.5 billion.
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facebook Its website was launched by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and soon beat out MySpace in popularity.
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youtube websiteThe site, youtube, was created and used to upload videos to the public.
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bing websiteA search engine called Bing was created and soon became a rival to Google.
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Instagram WebsiteA siocial media app for mobile phones called instagram soon became one of the most popular social media apps for teens.
