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Arpanet
On October 29th, 1969 UCLA and Stanford become the first hosts on what would eventually go on to become the internet. -
Email
Ray Tomlinson develops electronic mail, later known as e-mail. Tomlinson also decides to use the @ symbol within the email address. Project Gutenberg is also developed in an effort to make documents and books free electronically for the public to view. -
The PC modem
Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington develop and sell the first modems to hobbyists. While we didn't know it at the time, this was a big contribution to the development of the internet. -
Spam!
Gary Thuerk sends out the first unsolicited commercial email message to 600 arpanet users. This would later become known as spam, leading to a separate folder being created in our emails today. -
Usenet
Usenet, created by two grad students provided an outlet for people to speak and connect about multiple topics on discussion boards online. -
The first emoticon
Scott Fahlman one ups Ken MacKenzie and creates the first modern emoticons. MacKenzie's original proposal was to use -) instead of the emojis we know and use everyday. -
Domain Name System
DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically. -
Growth!
In 1987 the Internet has 30,000 hosts online. -
AOL
America Online is launched and becomes the most popular internet platform among users. -
World Wide Web
Coding for WWW is finished along with HTML, HTTP, and URL's. -
First web page
1991 brought the first webpage, which explained what the WWW is and it's purpose. -
MP3
In 1991 the MP3 enables users to share songs and or albums online. -
Mosaic
While Mosaic wasn't the first web browser, it was the first one to make the internet easily accessible for users. -
Netscape Navigator
Netscape, another internet web browser was released a year after Mosaic and quickly became its biggest competitor. -
Hotmail
The first web mail service is established. -
WiFi
After a team at CSIRO invented a wireless local area network, this allowed devices to connect through radio waves. -
Google
Google goes live and forever changes the way we use the internet. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia launches, which enabled users to look up any kind of information with a click. -
MySpace
In 2003, MySpace became the most popular social media platform. -
''The'' Facebook
Launching in 2004, The Facebook was open to college students at first. ''The'' was dropped from the social media's platform eventually and it was opened up to the public.