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On the October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time. In effect, they were the first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
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Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, .made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name.
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1977 was a big year for the development of the Internet as we know it today. It’s the year the first PC modem, developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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With the popularity of emailing, the first modern email program was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of Southern California in 1975. The biggest technological advance this program (called MSG) made was the addition of "Reply" and "Forward" functionality. This is still the basist of wat our email is today
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While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke.
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there are now 30000 people are on the internet
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When Apple pulled out of the AppleLink program in 1989, the project was renamed and America Online was born. AOL, still in existence today, later on made the Internet popular amongst the average internet users.
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In 1996, HoTMaiL (the capitalized letters are an homage to HTML), the first webmail service, was launched.
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The pc modem was created. The internet as we know it was sold to computer hobbiest.
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Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.
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With the dotcom collapse still going strong, Wikipedia launched in 2001, one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media.
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orriginaly only open to college students and was called "The Facebook"; later on, "The" was dropped from the name, though the URL http://www.thefacebook.com still works.
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free online video hosting and sharing to the masses.
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It was originally going to be called twittr. Alowes you to folllow friends and celeberties
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The biggest innovation of 2007 was almost certainly the iPhone, which was almost wholly responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and design.
