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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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. -
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
TalkomaticThe fisrt online chat system called talkomatic is created by Doug Brown and David R. Woolley in 1973 on the PLATO system at the university of Illinois.
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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 control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP) -
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
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 virtual worlds, combining
elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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
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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
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ArchieArchie the first search engine is created Alan emtage at Mcgill Unversity.
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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. -
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. -
First imageThis picture of french parody pop band Les Horribles Cernettes was uploaed to the internet
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Online pizzaPizza Hut sells the first pizza to be ordered online.
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EbayA borken laser pointer was sold for $14.83 on ebay at that point named auction web
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social media Six Degrees the first major social media is developed.
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googleThe world's most popular search engine google launches.
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wikipediaWikipedia the online encyclopedia is launced.
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facebookOne of the most popular social media sites ever facebook is launched.
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youtubeThe largest video sharing site youtube is lauched
