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the unix was one of the major milestones in the 60's , it heavily influenced linux and Freebsd
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arpanet was the first network to run off packet switching technology which was new at the time. computers at the universities of stafford and ucla were connected for the first time.they were the first hosts on what would one day become the internet
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between Harvard, MIT, and BBN An Arpanet network was established . bbn is the organization that created the “interface message processor” computers used to connect to the network
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Ray Tomlinson first developed Email in 1971.to separate the user name from the computer name he made the decision to use the “@”.
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in 1972 France began its own Arpanet-like project called CYCLADES. with cyclades eventually being shut down it gave pioneer a key idea .rather than the network itself,the host computer should be responsible for data transmission.
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in 1973, with the University College of London,Arpanet made its first trans-Atlantic connection.email accounted for 75% of all Arpanet network activity,During the same year
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a breakthrough year was 1974 .to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called “inter-network” ,A proposal was published .which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP)
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developed by John Vittal was the first modern email program he was a programmer at the University of Southern California in 1975.the addition of “Reply” and “Forward” was The biggest technological advance this program called MSG
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as we know it today a big year for the development of the Internet was 1977.developed by Dennis Hayes It’s the year the first PC modem was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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developed in 1979 was World of Warcraft and Second Life and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon).combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat ,MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds
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during a blizzard in Chicago The first bulletin board system (BBS) was developed
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who launched ENQUIRE ? The European Organization for Nuclear Research. to keep track of people, software, and projects using hypertext ,a hypertext program
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Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using a emoticon after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979
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the project was renamed and America Online was born When Apple pulled out of the AppleLink program in 1989 AOL, still in existence today, later on made the Internet popular amongst the average internet users.
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major innovations to the world of the Internet brought in 1991 .The first web page was created and its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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revolutionizing the way in which people find information online , Google went live in 1998
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one of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media, Wikipedia launched in 2001
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facebook was launched in 2004 although at the time it was called "the facebook"
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bringing free online video hosting and sharing to the masses , YouTube launched in 2005
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the iPhone was The biggest innovation of 2007, responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and design.
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