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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
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Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interfaec message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.
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Develope by Ray Tomlinson,who also made the decision the 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 know as spam), was sent out to California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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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.
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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
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adobe was created by john warnock and charles geschke in 1982
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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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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
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Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
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The facebook was created by 23 year old Mark Zuckerburg on feb. 4, 2004. Mark was still in Harvard University when he created The Facebook.
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YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was founded in February 2005, as a destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through the Web.
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Google has agreed to buy San Bruno video-sharing site YouTube in an all-stock deal worth about $1.65 billion.
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Minecraft was publicly released for the PC on May 17, 2009, as a developmental alpha version and, after gradual updates, was published as a full release version on November 18, 2011.
