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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be made through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. Computer
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DEC unveils the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer. Small enough to sit on a desktop, it sells for $18,000. Minicomputer
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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
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Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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Larry Roberts and Bob Kahn decide that it is time for a public demonstration of the ARPANET. They chose to hold the demonstration in Washington, DC. <ahref='http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_70s.html' >ARPANETdeomonstration</a>
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A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network",
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Apple's first computer was called the Apple I computer. The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer. <ahref='http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm' >FirstAppleComputer</a>
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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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. -
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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Microsoft introduces earliest version of Office suite of productivity applications. Microsoft
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The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his
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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. -
Internet Explorer was released in 1995 and is one of the most popular browsers today. <ahref='http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp' >InternetExplorer</a>
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The FNC unanimously passed a resolution defining the term Internet. InternetHistory
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The year Netflix was founded. 239,000 people signed up with Netflix in its first year. Netflix founded
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Facebook was created in January 2004. It was, at first, called thefacebook.com. Facebook history
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Twitter was founded in March 2006, and was launched a month later. Twitter
