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When computers first learned to comunicate with each other in case of a nuclear attack.
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The first host that one day would be the internet.
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When the network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN was created.
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Being able to send letters through the internet is what email is. It was invented in 1971.
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When a proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network",
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When Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington invented the first personal computer modem, and then was initialy sold to computer hobbyists.
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When Gary Thuerk sent out the first unsolicited commercial email message to 600 California Arpanet users.
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When entirely text-based virtual words, combinding elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat was created.
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When Scott Fahlman used :-) after a joke instead of the original -). Many people though, thought it was Kevin Mackenzie who created this, Rather than Scott.
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When the DNS made addresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its natural IP counter parts. Dns servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remeber domain name and then covert it to IP address automatically.
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AOL When first started, the company was known as Quantum Computer Services offering an online service named Q-Link. Quantum launched its first instant messenger service in 1989 and welcomed users with that familiar saying 'You've got mail!'. In 1991 that Quantum was renamed America Online. In 1995, AOL extended its service internationally and launched AOL Germany.
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When the code for World Wid Web (www) was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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The first web page was created and, much like the first email was, its puropse was to explain what the Worl Wide Web was.
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Ebay eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals.
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Google Google.com was registered as a domain on September 15. It is used to search different things on the internet.
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Mozilla The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code that was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the Internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market.
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Pandora With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs, artists or genres into Pandora and let the Music Genome Project go. This was invented to be able to listen to your favorite songs and genres of music online easily.
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Myspace Myspace, once the most popular social networking website in United States from 2006 to 2008, was officially launched in August 2003 in Santa Monica, California with its headquarters in Beverly Hills, California.
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Facebook On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg relaunched with a new website "Thefacebook". In 2004, an angel investor, Sean Parker (founder of Napster) became the company's president. The company changed the name from TheFacebook to just Facebook.
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Youtube Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos.
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Twitter Created in 2006, Twitter is a global real-time communications platform with 400 million monthly visitors to twitter.com, more than 200 million monthly active users around the world.
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Tumblr David Karp is at the helm of one of the internet's fastest growing startups. He founded blogging platform, Tumblr, in 2007, aged 21, from the bedroom of his mother's apartment in New York.
