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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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The first hosts on what would one day become the internet.
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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.
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Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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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).
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WikipediaOn this date, Apple, the multi-million dollar computer selling company, was founded.
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was
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wikipediaESPN, or Entertainment adn Sports Programming Network, is a television and website everything sports, It was founded in Connecticut.
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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.
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wikipediaOn this date, the word processing system was released.
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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 automatically.
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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.
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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.
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WikipediaNFL sunday ticket is a program on teh TV that lets you watch any NFL game you want to. It is mainly for DirecTV
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wikipediaGoogle was founded in Menlo Park, California. It is a search engine with billion's of websites.
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wikipediaWikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. It has over 4 million articles.
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AppleOn this date, iTunes, the music selling company made by Apple, was founded.
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wikipediaOn this date, Flickr, the photo sharing and storing service was created.
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wikipediaOn this date, Facebook, the picture sharing, status updating and video sharing social networking site was released.
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wikipediaOn this date, YouTube, the video uploading and watching company was founded.
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WikipediaOn this date, Twitter, a 140 character "status update", was launced.
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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released Instagram, a social networking site for posting pictures and videos to your friends.
