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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.
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time-
The first hosts on what would one day
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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).
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Micorsoft is founded
MicrosoftMicrosoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800. -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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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 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
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- 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
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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
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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. -
Amazon.com
AmazonAmazon stared out as an online book store but now you can purchase nearly anything from it. -
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Internet Explorer is released
Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995 -
Apple Inc. is started
AppleApple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers -
Google is created
GoogleGoogle is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products -
Xbox live goes online
Xbox liveXbox Live (trademarked as Xbox LIVE[4]) is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft. -
Facebook was created
FacebookFacebook is a website that allows people to find friends, share thoughts, feelings, picture, and do ther things with them. -
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Netflix is created
Netflix
Netflix is a on demand service that allows users to have instant acess to thier favorite movies and shows.
