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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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). -
Apple was founded
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak wanted to make a computer that was small enough for rooms or offices and user-friendly. [View Here] https://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html -
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 automatically. -
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 search engine
" Scientists work together to help build a body of knowledge for all mankind." [View Here] http://www.searchenginehistory.com -
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. -
Internet Society was formed
"Its mission—to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world—mirrors the guiding principles that gave rise to and enabled the propagation of our era’s defining technology." [View Here] http://www.internetsociety.org/history -
Amazon was created
Amazon, mostly known for being the biggest online retailer. [View Here] https://www.surepayroll.com/resources/blog/how-amazon-started -
Yahoo was created
"Yahoo is now one of the two biggest Internet companies in the world with nearly 650 million unique users visiting their website every month." [View Here] https://successstory.com/companies/yahoo-inc -
First phone with Internet access
"I was really passionate about the idea that the Internet as an application platform would mean that you could write applications for any device that spoke Internet formats and protocols." [View Here] https://www.brightcove.com/en/blog/2009/03/first-internet-phone-circa-1996 -
Netflix was created
"They had the idea of creating a website where it would be easy for people to buy and rent DVD's sitting at their homes." [View Here] https://successstory.com/companies/netflix-inc -
Skype was created
One of the biggest communication softwares on computers. [View Here] http://techland.time.com/2011/05/10/a-brief-history-of-skype/ -
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Twitter was created
After a failed attempt forpodcasting, the idea for Twiter was created. [View Here] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-twitter-was-founded-2011-4
