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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 "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970
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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
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A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into aso-called "inter-network" which would have no central control and would work around a
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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 known as spam), was sent
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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,
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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 :-)
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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
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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,
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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
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The first text message was sent in 1992 from Neil Papworth, a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms. Mobile phones didn't have keyboards at the time, so Papworth had to type the message on a PC. Papworth's text — "Merry Christmas" — was successfully sent to Richard Jarvis at Vodafone. http://mashable.com/2012/09/21/text-messaging-history/#jpkU23RjtZqj -
Netflix was created on August 29, 1997, Scotts Valley, CA and is my favoirte movie and show streaming website.
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The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, February 22, 2002, in Japan, and March 14, 2002, in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox
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YouTube was created on February 14, 2005, San Mateo, CA and is my favorite website to watch videos online.
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The first ever IPhone was invented on June 29, 2007, and is the current Phone I own.
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Steve Jobs introduced the first MacBook Air during a speech at his keynote at the 2008 Macworld conference on January 15, 2008. The first-generation MacBook Air was a 13.3"-only model, initially promoted as the world's thinnest notebook.
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Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. Launched in 2010
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Snapchat was released in India on September 2011, and is a message and social media platform I use regularly.
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No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival video game developed and published by the indie studio Hello Games for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. It was released worldwide in August 2016. The playing field is rumored and confirmed by Hello Games to be infinite.
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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. It was LAUNCHED on March 17th, 2017.
