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The publication of the first “request for comments,” or RFC, documents paves the way for the birth of the internet.
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The opersating system most popular in today's web servers/web hosting servies.
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Email was fire developed in 1971, by Ray Romlinson.
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Arpanet made its first trans-Atlantic connection in 1973
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Decide there would be no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol.
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Firs modern email program was created, had the "reply" and "forwards" functionality
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the year the first PC modem, Developed by DennisHayes and Dale Heaterington
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the first bulletin board system was developed during a blizzard in Chicago in 1978.
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year that brough the first unsolicited commercail email message, sent out to 600 calidfornia arpanet users by Gary Thurerk.
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MUDS were entriely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fictions, and online chat.
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Kevin Mackenzie with invention of the emoticion in 1979, it was Scott Fahman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the - ) proposed by MacKenzie.
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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.
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nearly 30k host on the Internet.
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Real-time chat
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The Morris Worm, it was written by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the Internet.
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Made the internet popular amongst the average internet users.
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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.
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Brought the first commercial dial-up internet provider, The World.
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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.
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MP3 files, being highly compressed, later become a popular file format to share songs and entire albums via the internet.
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One of the more interesting developments of this era, though, was the first webcam. It was deployed at a Cambridge University computer lab, and its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker so that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot.
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The first widely downloaded Internet browser, Mosaic, was released in 1993. While Mosaic wasn’t the first web browser, it is considered the first browser to make the Internet easily accessible to non-techies.
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First, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption was developed by Netscape, making it safer to conduct financial transactions (like credit card payments) online. In addition, two major online businesses got their start the same year. The first sale on "Echo Bay" was made that year. Echo Bay later became eBay. Amazon.com also started in 1995, though it didn’t turn a profit for six years, until 2001.
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The internet 2, which includes 34 Universities is a massive prject including tons of organizations, which can be found here: http://www.internet2.edu/communities-groups/members/
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HoTMaiL (the capitalized letters are an homage to HTML), the first webmail service, was launched.
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Google went live in 1998, revolutionizing the way in which people find information online.
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In 1998 as well, Napster launched, opening up the gates to mainstream file-sharing of audio files over the internet.
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2000 was the year of the dotcom collapse, resulting in huge losses for legions of investors. Hundreds of companies closed, some of which had never turned a profit for their investors. The NASDAQ, which listed a large number of tech companies affected by the bubble, peaked at over 5,000, then lost 10% of its value in a single day, and finally hit bottom in October of 2002.
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ne of the websites that paved the way for collective web content generation/social media.
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Skype is released to the public, giving a user-friendly interface to Voice over IP calling.
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, MySpace opens up its doors. It later grew to be the most popular social network at one time (though it has since been overtaken by Facebook)
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Social media–sites and web applications that allow its users to create and share content and to connect with one another–started around this period.
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Facebook is created. Was orginally only open to college students and was called "The Facebook", rather than just "facebook"
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Youtube lauches becoming the most succesful video sharing site.
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increasing populararity in people using their phones to browse the internet.
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The first "Internet election" took place in 2008 with the U.S. Presidential election. It was the first year that national candidates took full advantage of all the Internet had to offer. Hillary Clinton jumped on board early with YouTube campaign videos. Virtually every candidate had a Facebook page or a Twitter feed, or both.
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2009 brought about one of the biggest changes to come to the Internet in a long time when the U.S. relaxed its control over ICANN, the official naming body of the Internet (they’re the organization in charge of registering domain names).
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