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History of the Internet- Alaina!

  • APRAnet

    APRAnet
    An Arpanet network was established between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970.
  • The First Emotion = )

    The First Emotion = )
    The first emotion was born in 1971 by Scott Fahlman. This emotion was made after a joke and was proposed by Kevin MacKenzie.
  • Email

    Email
    Email was invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name.
  • The Internet grows

    The Internet grows
    By 1987, there were nearly 30,000 hosts on the Internet.
  • Webcam

    Webcam
    Invented by a Cambridge University they made this webcam to keep an eye on a coffee pot so they wouldnt waste time going down to et coffee and there was none.
  • IRC- Internet Relay Chat

    IRC-  Internet Relay Chat
    Internet Relay Chat invented to the modern chat movement. IRC is the most widely used Internet chat system, and as seems often to be the case with Internet technologies, was invented by a graduate student named Jarkko Oikarinen at the University of Oulu, Finland.
  • Napster

    Napster
    This was the opening up the gates to mainstream file-sharing of audio files over the internet.
  • The Launch of Google

    The Launch of Google
    Google is a website to search and get basically any information you want or need.
  • TheFacebook was Launched

    TheFacebook was Launched
    We are used to seeing just Facebook, But before that it was called "TheFacebook" That website is currently still working.
  • Twitter was Launched

    Twitter was Launched
    It was originally going to be called twittr.