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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day
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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
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) -
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 control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP).
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The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out 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 (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 :-)
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. -
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
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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 created
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. -
Amazon.com is founded
Amazon's own fact page Beknown to people in the 90's, Amazon is a leading online shipping company, which stocks a masive range of goods, the original website was deigned just for books. -
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Itunes presented at Macworld
History of Itunes Itunes, now a major stable in music, was released 13 years ago by apple after buying out Cassady and Greene in 2000. I do not even have an apple mobile device, yet my mobile is still able to access the program on my mac, which is a good thing for me, cause the layout for itunes is so simple. -
Xbox live added to Xbox consoles
Xbox is one of the biggest online platforming systems in the world.
After being revealed in May '02, Xbox launched their online platform Xbox Live to the public 7 months later. -
Steam goes into beta
Steam is another leading onlie platform for gaming. Now a leader in advancements for online gaming, steam became available to the public early 2003 on a beta program, all of my games not on my xbox are on steam. -
Skype released
Skype WIKI
Skype is a online chat messenger which has exploded over the past 10 years, you can not only type messages to people, but also host audio and video calls too, which is a major plus for businesses or if you have friends from abroad. -
Facebook was released
Facebook is a social media website. Facebook is now a major business, let alone a form of social media. -
Youtube domain is taken and starts to initialize website
Youtube's History In early '05, 3 ex-paypal workers bought the rights to the domain name of Youtube, and started working on making a video-sharing site, which is now massive. -
Verison FIOS lauched
Speed TestVerison FIOS Verison FIOS is the best internet provider according to SpeedTest, it is the provider my family uses and it is amazing for all kinds of internet usage. -
Football Manager 2012 was released
Football Manager 2012 is a tactical soccer game in which you can be the manager of any cluub you want to. This was the first FM game I got, it ruined my social life.
