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1962 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
Computers at Sanford 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 computers used to connect to the network -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomilson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to separate the user name from the computer 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 -
Creation of Apple
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007, to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.
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Personal computer invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to comuputer 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 multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD. MUDs were entirely text-based virtual words, 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 Fahlam in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather 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 made addresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its numerical 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 web page created 1991
This 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. -
Creation of Google
The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California. The company's first patent was filed on August 31, 1999.
(https://www.google.com/about/company/history/)
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Creation of Myspace
Myspace.com (originally stylized as MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/myspace-history-timeline_n_887059.html)
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Creation of Flickr
Flickris a popular photo-sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime.
(https://www.cnet.com/news/newbies-guide-to-flickr/)
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Creation of Facebook
The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University. Facebook gradually added support for students at various other universities, and eventually to high school students as well.
(http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3)
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Creation of YouTube
The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.
(nventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/YouTube.htm)
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Creation of Buzzfeed
BuzzFeed is an internet media company based in New York City. The firm describes itself as a "social news and entertainment company" with a focus on digital media and digital technology in order to provide "the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video."
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sunil-rajaraman/how-buzzfeed-mastered-con_b_4369897.html)
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Creation of Twitter
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day.
(https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjlyfGAz8jPAhVGMyYKHZ_HC-4QFgg_MAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTwitter&usg=AFQjCNFXljZuLsgeqbCMhCvOnukojFA80g&sig2=vef_y2-ppnwOLjuaSdw4NQ) -
Creation of Tumblr
Tumblr (stylized as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and since 2013 owned by Yahoo! The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.
(http://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-tumblr-2013-5)
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Creation of Instagram
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr.
(http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/profile-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-founders-instagram.html)
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