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They found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack.
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They were the first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
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Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN was created
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Email was first developed by Ray Tomlinson.
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A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together in an "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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Invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, the modem was initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first spam message was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk
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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was called MUD (MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds.
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The first emoticon was used, a smiley face. :-)
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The first DNS was created. It made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly. DNS servers allowed users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and converted it to the IP address automatically.
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The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Archie, the first search engine, was created by Alan Emtage and indexed computer files. Source
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The first web page brought major innovations to the Internet. The purpose of this web page was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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Dan Kohn sold a CD to a friend in Philadelphia. Source
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Internet Explorer was released the same month as another popular browser at the time, Navigator 3. This started the so-called "browser wars", and Navigator never recovered. Internet Explorer remains a popular browser. Source
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The Google search engine was first introduced in 1998, and today it is one of, if not the most popular search engine
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College student Shawn Fanning created Napster in 1999. It allowed users to share files with anyone online, and not too long after its creation, many musicians were infuriated. Source
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Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia allowing users to edit articles, is created. Source
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The first ever YouTube video "Me at the zoo" was uploaded on this date by YouTube's co-founder Jawed Karim. Source
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Originally a campus-oriented site, Facebook was released to the general public. Today there are about 1.3 billion active users. Source
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The Google Chrome web browser is released in September of 2008, and can be used on both mobile and desktop. Source
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Google Drive, a place where you can upload and access all of your files, was launched. Source
