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Advance Research Projects Agency.
Advance Research Project Agency was created and found a way for computers to talk to each other -
Stanford and UCLA.
Computers from Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time. They would become the first host of the Internet. -
Arpanet.
Network between MIT, Harvard, and BBN is connected -
Email.
Email is first developed by Ray Tomlinson. He also decided to use the '@' symbol. -
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. -
Personal Computer Modem
The modem was invited by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington and was sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is Born
The first unsolicited commercial email message was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
Mud- First Multiplayer Games
The game called MUD (MultiUser Dungeon) was a multiplayer textbased virtual world. -
Emoticons.
The first emoticon was used by Scott Fahlman after being proposed as :-) after a joke. -
Microsoft
Microsoft started out as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They had a vision to put computers on ever desk for ever person. Since 1982, theyve created 9 different Window operating systems for computers. It is now a multi-billion dollar company. -
Domain Names.
The first domain name servers (DNS) was created. This was important because it made addresses on the internet on the Internet more human-friendly compared to the numerical IP address counterpart.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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World Wide Web (WWW).
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. -
Web Page
The first web page 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. -
Yahoo.com
Yahoo, created by David Filo and Jerry Yang, started out as a project to help their friends explore the WWW and find what they need. -
HotMail
Hotmail was created by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and then was later acquired by Microsoft. Hotmail was one of the very first services to offer free web-based email and grew fast. -
Google.com
Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as Backrub in 1996 but later became google.com. -
Bing.com
Bing Is a search engine used by yahoo.com. It started out as MSN created by Microsoft, became Windows live search, Live search, and then became Bing for Yahoo!. -
Myspace.com
Myspace is a social network site, but also a media hosting site that is part chat room, part movie theater, part shopping mall, part bar, and part concert that is open 24 hours, a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year -
Facebook.com
Facebook a social media website, was first launched on 2/4/2004 and later became a multimillion dollar web page. -
Youtube.com
Youtube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006. -
Twitter.com
Twitter is a social website where uses send small messages to everyone who "follows" them. -
Tumblr.com
Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
