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Arpanet was the first real network to run. Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the very first time on this day.
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Ray Tomlinson developed email in 1971. He also decided to use the @ symbol to separate the username from the computer name
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Gary Thuerk sent out unsolicited commercial email messages (spam) to 600 Arpanet users in California
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Scott Fahlman decided to use :-) after a joke resulting in the first modern emoticon.
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It was meant to explain what the world wide web was
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Developed in a Cambridge University computer lab solely to watch a coffee maker so they knew when it was empty so they wouldn't waste a trip.
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The domain name for Google was registered.
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Wikipedia is launched. It paved the way for collective web content generation/ social media
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Myspace "opened it's doors" in 2003 and was at the time the most popular social networking site.
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Twitter was launched in 2006. Originally planned to be called twittr, like flickr. First tweet was "just setting up my twttr"
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All of the candidates had facebook or twitter or both. Ron Paul fundraised $4.3 Million dollars in one day using the internet.
