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Advanced Research Projects Agency
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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First Person To Use The Internet
The First Person To Use The Internet. Wesley Clark was the first person to use the internet. -
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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) -
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", hich would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
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
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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
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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.
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. -
The First File Sharing Service Was Napster in 1998
Napster was a file sharing service and it was released in 1998 -
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Xbox live was released
Xbox live was released to the public -
The World Wide Web Was Developed by...
The World Wide Web was created by Timothy Berners Lee. -
Commercial Activity Was Forbidden at First
AdvertisingCommercial advertising was not allowed at first -
