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the operating system whose design heavily influenced that on Linuz and FreeBSD.
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computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.
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Arpanet network was established between Harvard, MIT, and BBN.
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email was first developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to separate the user name from the computer name.
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this project made it possible to access documents in the public domain available electronically.
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Arpanet made its first trans- atlantic connection. email accounted for 75% of all arpanet network activity.
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a proposal was published to link Arpa- like networks toegether into an inter- network, which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol.
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PC modem, which was developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, was introduced and sold to computer hobbyists.
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the first BBS was developed.
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unsolicited commercial email message (aka spam) was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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MUD (MultiUser Dungeon), which were entirely text- based virtual worlds, combining elements of role- playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.
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Scott Fahlman propsed using " :-) " after a joke.
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the DNS was important in that it made adresses on the internet easy to remember, instead of using the old numerical IP adresses.
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"the morris worm", it was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the internet.
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written by Tim BernersLee the propsal for the world wide web, was published in the march issue of MacWorld.
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apple pulled out of the AppleLink program, the project was renamed and america online was born.
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the first web page was created, its purpose was to explain what the world wide web was.
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the first webcam, which was developed at Cambridge University computer lab.
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the white house and the united nations came online, which began the beginning of .gov and .ord domain names.
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the first webmail service, hotmail, was launched.
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the first major news story went online instead of being published in the mainstream of media.
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google went live that year and changed the way people found information online.
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wikipedia was one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content gereration/ social media.
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myspace became the most popular social network at one time, sense then has been overtake by facebook.
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Skype was released, giving a user- friendly interface to Voice over IP calling.
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facebook, at the time was launched to only college students, and was called "the facebook".
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youtube was launched, brining free online video hosting and sharing to the masses.
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twitter was launched,
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the first internet election took place in the U.S presidential election. it was the first year that national candidates took full advantage of the internet had to offer.
