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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Computer at Stanford and UCLA contected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface messge processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray TOmlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from teh computer name (which later on became te domain name) -
The beginninig of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central controol and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
Microsoft Founded
Bill Gates Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. -
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The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was nvented by Dennis Hayes and Dale heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbtyists. -
Spam is born
THe first unsolicited commerical email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD - The earliest form of mulitiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Scond Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combiining elemeens of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The first emoticon:-)
The first emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979m it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rater than the original -) propsoed by MacKenzie. -
Adobe Systems Founded
Adobe 25th anniversary timeline Charles Geschke and Dr. John Warnock founded Adobe -
The domain name system was created
THe First Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made adresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Inernet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically. -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal form the year before, along with the standard for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
Photoshop Creation
Photoshop 1.0 Thomas and John Knoll had seen that their new Macintosh III had no color and tried to fix it -
First web page created 1991
brought some major innovation tothe world of the Internet. The first web page was created and , much like the first email explained what email was, it purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Webcam invented
Webcam info Cambrigde University looked for a way to see if coffee was ready so they didn't have to keep checking. -
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Google Founded
September 4 1991Google opened in Menlo park, California was answering 10000 searches each day -
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WikiLeaks founded
History of WikiLeaks Bradley Manning, founder of WikiLeaks, began publishing on WikiLeaks website.
