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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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Syncom
The syncom satelite was thought of by J.C.R. Licklider in the year 1962 and it was launched into space in 1963. It weighed a total of 55 pounds and allowed everyone across the globe to interconnect and to be able to access any site or data from anywhere. -
Telephone connection
A dedicated telephone line was set up to connect the TX-2 at MIT to Q-32 in Santa Monica. Larry Roberts and Thomas Marill created this firsst wide-area network connection with fuunding from ARPA. However, Klienrock predicted that packet switching offered the most effective communication between computers and most promising model. -
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) -
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 (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. -
Theorynet
THEORYNET was created by Larry Landweber to provide e-mail between 100+ researchers and to link the University of Wisconsin with cities via a commercial packet like Telenet. -
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 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, 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 Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than 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 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 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
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 Yahoo
Yahoo! was created by David Filo and Jerry Yang. They were both in electrical engineering at Stanford. Yahoo was based the idea of caterizing and subcatergorizing different interests and websites so they could fit as many different things on as they could. -
Craiglist
Craigslist actually came from Craig Newmarks tab on his e-mail to notify people about events in the community. It wasn't until 1996 that it became craigslit.com. Ultimately, craigslit has become the largest international online classifieds site around. -
History of google
History of google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford and were Stanford computer graduates together. Google was fist called BackRub but then they later changed it to google. The name google was a play on words from "googol"; the math term representing 1 followed by a hundered zeros. -
iTunes
iTunes was created to allow people to buy and download music on-demand. It wasn't until October of 2003 that regular PC users could use a windows version of iTunes to download their music. In its first year, iTunes sold 70 million songs. Today iTunes is still going strong with way over 10 billion songs sold. -
Facebook was born
A brief history of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg launched "The Facebook" only to other Harvard students and Undergraduates. It wasn't until August of 2005 that the address of facebook was bought for $200,000. -
History of Twitter
Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone. Twitter is a "micro-blogging" site that allows people to send brief text updates or multi-media messages to their followers. -
YouTube
YouTube: Google bought YouTube for over 1.4 million dollars in October of 2006. It wasn't until 4 years after Google bought YouTube that there were music videos, professionally made videos, and other "fresh" content on it. Since they bought YouTube there views went up to 2 billion views a day from 100 million views a day.
