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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is created
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT and, BBN (the company that created the " interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created -
Email was first developed
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The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission protocol -
WYSIWYG is created
Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) to describe the ability of being able to display a file or document exactly how it is going to be printed or viewed
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The Microsoft Corporation was founded
The Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
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Apple is created
Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/11-internet-history-timeline.htm -
The first Personal Computer Modem is invented
The modem was created by Dennis Hays and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyist -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message, was sent to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979 and was called MUD ( sort for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interative, fiction, and online chat -
MS-DOS is created
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS.
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The first emoticon:-)
The first emoticon was used While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie -
Microsoft Windows was introduced
Microsoft Windows introduced eliminating the need for a user to have to type each command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate through drop-down menus, tabs and icons
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The domain name system was created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. 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 -
"Cyberspace" is first heard
William Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer
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World Wide Web protocols finished
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 -
First web page was created
It 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 -
The Internet was released to the public
The World Wide Web is launched to the public
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The World Wide Web Consortium is founded
The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web
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Google is created
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
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