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created a new network of computers by the government
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Heavily influenced the operating systems most commonly used today.
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Ray Tomlinson developed email
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linked all the networks together and worked around a control protocol which eventually became TCP/IP
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The first PC modem was developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington.
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Gary Thuerk sent out an email to 600 California Arpanet users.
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The earlist form of multiplayer games.
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Scott Fahlman used the first emoticon in 1982 who used :-) after a joke.
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Domain name system made adresses on the Internet more human friendly than the numerical IP adresses.
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AOL made the Internet popular amongst average users.
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The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners Lee along with HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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The first web page was created, and it explained what the World Wide Web was.
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Mp3 file format was accepted as the standard
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The first web cam was used in Cambridge University computer lab to watch coffe pots and how full they were.
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The first graphical web browser was released for the general public.
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Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way people surfed the web.
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The Facebook was created for college students but later the The was dropped and it was open to everyone,
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The IPhone was created and renewed an interest in the mobile web applications and designs.