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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created.
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) -
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). -
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 formk 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
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the domain name 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
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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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First Web page created 1991
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. -
Day Yahoo was created
Creation of YahooYahoo Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! -
Creation of Ebay
Ebay was createdeBay Inc. is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer to consumer & business to consumer sales services via Internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California -
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Creation of facebook
Day facebook was madeFacebook, one of the most famous social meadia sites, was made. This site was created by Mark Zuckerberg. -
Creation of Youtube
Creation of youtubeThe creation of the famouse site youtube. Youtube was created by Chad hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. -
Creation of Twitter
Creation of TwitterTwitter, a fast and easy way to share updates was created. Twitter was made by Evan Williams, Noah glass, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone. -
First Phone was connected to the Internet
First Internet PhoneThe very first phone was equipt with internet. The phone was called Circa 1996. -
The day Instagram was made
Day instagram was madeInstagram is a social media site created to share photos and videos with friends. It was made by Mike Krieger. -
Creation of snapchat
Day snapchat was madeCreation of Snapchat, the very popular social picture app. -
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.
