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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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 -
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) -
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). -
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
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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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 -
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
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international multibillion dollar electronic commerce company based in Seatle in the United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. -
Amazon is Created
eBay is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. It allows viewers of the site to sell and buy their things while competing for the lowest price with other users of the website. -
AOL instant messenger
AOL Instant Messenger also known as AIM is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia allows for users to find information online as if using an encyclopedia, however anoyone can modify the website's information. -
Esther Talita Estelle launched esther clothing in 2004, an online boutique, which has fast become an online company recognized Australia wide and internationally.
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FacebookMark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes created facebook
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Youtube
The first YouTube video was titled Me at the zoo, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video can still be viewed on the site. -
twitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters.
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TumblrThe service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
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PinterstPinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, and hobbies. Users can browse other pinboards for images, "re-pin" images to their own pinboards, or "like" photos.
