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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 commented 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 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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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). -
Apple was founded
WikipediaOn this date, Apple, the multi-million dollar computer selling company, was founded. -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
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. -
ESPN was founded
wikipediaESPN, or Entertainment adn Sports Programming Network, is a television and website everything sports, It was founded in Connecticut. -
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. -
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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 automatically. -
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. -
NFL Sunday Ticket was launched
WikipediaNFL sunday ticket is a program on teh TV that lets you watch any NFL game you want to. It is mainly for DirecTV -
Google was founded
wikipediaGoogle was founded in Menlo Park, California. It is a search engine with billion's of websites. -
Wikipedia was founded
wikipediaWikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. It has over 4 million articles. -
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Flickr was created
wikipediaOn this date, Flickr, the photo sharing and storing service was created. -
Facebook was founded
wikipediaOn this date, Facebook, the picture sharing, status updating and video sharing social networking site was released. -
YouTube was founded
wikipediaOn this date, YouTube, the video uploading and watching company was founded. -
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Instagram was released
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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released Instagram, a social networking site for posting pictures and videos to your friends.
