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history-timelines.orgCharles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
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history-timelines.orgAlan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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the first hosts on what would one day becom the internet
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network between Havard, MIT, BNN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computer used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created
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Developed b rar tomlison, who also made the decision to use the "@" symboal to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name)
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A propasal was publsihed to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inger-network" which would have no cemtral control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which enentually became TCP/IP)
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The modem was inveted by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists
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The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to boo california arpernet users by gary thuerk.
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The precursor to world of warcraft and second life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD(short for Multiuser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based birtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction and online chat
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the first emoticon was used while many people credit kevin Mackenzie with ehe inwention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Sott Gahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather thatn the original -) proposed by Mackenzie
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www.infoplease.comThe word “Internet” is used for the first time
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the first domain name servers (DNS) was created. the domain name system was important in that it makde addresses on the internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet users to typein an easy-to-remember domanin name and the nconverted it to the IP address automatically
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The code for the world wide web was wreitten by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standeards for HTML,HTTP, and URLs
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brought some major innovations to the world of the internet. ther first wev page was created and, much like the first eamail explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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history-timelines.orgJava is introduced
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www.history-timelines.orgWebTV is introduced
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history-timelines.orgGoogle is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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youtubeYouTube.com is launched.
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www.history-timelines.orgSkype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.
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[www.infoplease.com](http:www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193167.html)There are more than 92 million websites online
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A major protest online in January shakes up Congressional support for anti-Web piracy measures. The protest, including a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia site, is over two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate. The main goal of both bills is to stop illegal downloading and streaming of TV shows and movies online. The tech industry is concerned that the bills will give media companies too much power to shut down websites. Read mo
