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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected 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 the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
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) -
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 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 elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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 -
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
"First Ever" WebpageBrought 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 -
The first AOL Instant Message was sent by Ted Leonsis to his wife
"First Ever" AOL MessageIt read, "Don't be scared ... it is me. Love you and miss you."
His wife replied, "Wow ... this is so cool!"
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World Wide Web can be used by everyone for free
"Let Freedom Ring"The public statement declared that the main components of the web’s structure were to remain in the public domain, giving anyone in the world freedom to use them. “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyone to use, duplicate, modify and distribute it,” the historic statement read. -
The first item sold on eBay (back then it was AuctionWeb)
"First Ever" Item Sold on eBayIt was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. The man who bought it told founder Pierre Omidyar he collected broken laser pointers. -
The first book purchased on Amazon
"First Ever" Amazon Book Purchased Douglas Hofstadter's "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought" -
Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet
Millions Onlineroughly 30 million of those in North America (United States and Canada), 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific (Australia, Japan, etc.). 43.2 million (44%) U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online -
the first music file-sharing service
"First Ever" Music File Sharing Service
Although the MP3 standard was invented in 1991, it wasn't until 1998 that the first music file-sharing service Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever. -
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The first sentence uttered on Skype
"First Ever" Skype SentenceIn Estonian, a member of the development team said, "Tere, kas sa kuuled mind?" of "Hello, can you hear me?" in English -
The first YouTube video posted was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo
"First Ever" YouTube VideoIt has been watched nearly 10 million times -
The first ever tweet was written
"First Ever" TweetCo-founder Jack Dorsey wrote "just setting up my twttr"
