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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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The first hosts on what would one day
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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.
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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)
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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).
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The modem was invented 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 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was
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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.
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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 automatically.
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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 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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AmazonShopping website to get items for less.
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[Google](http://www.google.com/about/company/history/ ' )It is now one of the most popular search engines and most trusted. It was a website named BackRub but they renamed it and revamped to make it into google today
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EbayAnother shopping site that is more popular than Amazon
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Dick's Shopping site for sporting goods widely successful.
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Walmart Shopping website that made the store even more popular being able to shop where ever you are.
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Itunes Place created by apple and Steve Jobbs to get music and now apps
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Facebook Facebook is a hugh social network that was developed by Mark Zuckerberg that keeps people in touch where ever they are.
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GoogleMaps of the world were online now.
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YoutubeSite for sharing and viewing movies.
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Websites More than 92 million websites online
