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Looking at the Chronological Order of the First Different Uses of the Computer

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    Looking at the Chronological Order of the First Different Uses of the Computer

    What Were the First Different Uses of the Computer in Chronological Order?

  • The First Electronic Computers

    The First Electronic Computers
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    The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s.

  • First Recorded Social Interaction

    First Recorded Social Interaction
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    -The first recorded social interactions that were allowed through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT.
    -They were notes discussing his "Galactic Network" concept.

  • First Message Sent

    First Message Sent
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    -The first message sent was between two distant ARPANET computers.
    -This was the start of communication with the help of the Internet.

  • Birth of eBook

    Birth of eBook
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    -Project Gutenburg was the birth of eBook
    -Michael Hart started making a site that had books and documents available for free in electronic format.

  • Start of Email

    Start of Email
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    -Email was first developed in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
    -He started to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the domain name.

  • The First Trans-Atlantic Connection and Popularity of Emailing

    The First Trans-Atlantic Connection and Popularity of Emailing
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    -ARPANET made its first trans-atlantic connection with the University College of London.
    -the same year 75% of all ARPANETnetwork activity was email.

  • Start of Multiplayer Games

    Start of Multiplayer Games
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    -The ancestor of World of Warcraft was called Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)
    -MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.

  • The First Emoticon

    The First Emoticon
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    Kevin MacKenzie invented the emoticon in 1979 but Scott Fahlman proposed using :-) rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie.

  • The First Webcam

    The First Webcam
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    -The first webcam made was set up at Cambridge University’s computer lab.
    -Its purpose was to monitor a coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.

  • First Web Page Created

    First Web Page Created
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    The first webpage created was to explain what the World Wide Web was.

  • First Graphical Web Browser For The General Public

    First Graphical Web Browser For The General Public
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    Mosaic was the first widely downloaded Internet browser that made the Internet easily accessible to the general public.

  • First Web-based (Webmail) Service

    First Web-based (Webmail) Service
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    HoTMaiL (the capitalized letters are for HTML), the first webmail service, was launched.