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Frirst QWERTY Keyboard
Christopher Sholes invented the QWERTY keyboard for typewriters in 1968 http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/01/the-origin-of-the-qwerty-keyboard/ -
Analytical Machine Created
Charles Babbage built a machine that was able to perform basic calculations http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/analyten.htm -
First Hard Drive
The IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson, was introduced in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives -
ARPA is Created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/99HISTORYCD-ARPA-History.HTM -
Computer Mouse Invented
A WW2 Veteran invented a primitive mouse in 1964 http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/04/inventor-of-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-88 -
Computers at Standford and UCLA Connected for the First Time
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/birthplace-of-the-internet-celebrates-111333 -
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 http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_arpanet.htm -
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) http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html -
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) http://history-computer.com/Internet/Maturing/TCPIP.html
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The first PC Modem Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-first-ever-email--the-first-tweet--and-12-other-famous-internet-firsts-181209886.html -
SPAM Born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. http://www.themarysue.com/first-spam-email/ -
MUD - The Earliest Form of Multiplayer Games was Created
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. http://www.livinginternet.com/d/di_major.htm -
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 http://mashable.com/2011/09/20/emoticon-history/#EZLrCTUFpqqC -
The Domain Name 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
automatically. http://gcn.com/Blogs/Tech-Trivia/2011/08/First-registered-domain-name.aspx -
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 http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet -
First Web Page 1991
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. http://www.npr.org/2013/05/22/185788651/the-first-web-page-amazingly-is-lost -
First Picture Uploaded on Internet
The first picture ever uploaded on the web was posted by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on behalf of a comedy band called Les Horrible Cernettes. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/18/les-horribles-cernettes/ -
First video broadcasted over internet
The Band Severe Tire Damage posted the first video to the internet https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-first-video-viewed-over-the-internet -
Google Created
Google was created on this date in Menlo Park CA https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ -
Facebook Created
Created by Mark Zuckerburg on this date with Harvard roommates http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/jul/25/media.newmedia -
Youtube Released
Three Paypal employees created youtube, and registered the domain "www.youtube.com" on this date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube -
Instagram Released
Instagram was released to the public on the app store https://instagram.com/press/
