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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created-1962
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time-1969
The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. -
An Arpanet network was established- 1970
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed-1971
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP-1974
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented-1977
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born-1978
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted-1979
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
1979
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) is a sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc. and Walt Disney Company. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his brother Scott and Ed Egan. http://www.espnfounder.com/how_it_started.htm -
The first emoticon was used -1982
While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. -
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created-1984
The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically. -
World Wide Web protocols finished-1990
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
First web page created-1991
Brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
1995
Yahoo is a web services provider which is a rival of google. Yahoo's headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California. The original Yahoo company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
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1995
eBay is a selling and buying business that people around the world have and use. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. Today eBay is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries.
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1997
Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California. Netflix started off by sending DVD's around the United states and now they have grown it a business that you can watch millions of movies and TV shows on one app around the world. https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr -
2001
Wikipedia began with its launch on January 15, 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia is a online encyclopedia that gives you information on practically anything.
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2004
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/25/media.newmedia -
2005
YouTube is an American video-sharing website. It's headquarters are in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion dollars.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990787,00.html -
2005
Reddit is an American social news, web content rating, and discussion website created by Steve Huffman. Reddit's registered community members can submit content such as text, posts or direct links. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down that determine their position on the page. Submissions with the most up-votes appear on the front page or the top of a category.
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2006
Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. Created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July 2006.
https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854 -
2009
Minecraft is a video game created and designed by game designer Markus Persson, and later fully developed and published by Mojang. Millions of people play the game and it is the most downloaded game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft
