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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 Tomslinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the username from the computer name (which later became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to like Arpa-like networks together in 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 modern 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 arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD-The earliest from of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to Worl 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 :-)
While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention o 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 domain name system (DNS) was important 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 fro HTML, HTTP, and URLs -
The first web page created
This brought some major innovation 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. -
First Webcam
The first webcam was deployed was to check on a coffee pot at Cambridge University to not make trips to an empty coffee pot. Source -
Internet went Public
The internet went public for the first time by it's creator, Tim Berners-Lee so he could share information with other physicists. Source -
Commercial Activity allowed online
Until 1992, commercial activity, like buying an item online, was banned from being on the internet. Source -
First time Mosaic is used
Mosaic allowed internet pages to display pictures and text on the same page. Source -
Amazon created
Cadabra was the original name of Amazon. Amazon wasn't online until 1995, where it would become the internet's biggest electronic commerce website. Source -
Google first launhed
Google, by far the most used search engine, was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Source -
The first music file-sharing service went online
Although they weren't the first MP3 standard, Napster went online as the first music file-sharing service. Source -
Creation of Wikipedia
Wikipedia, today, is the biggest "free-as-in-freedom" encyclopedia on the internet. It was created by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. Source -
Facebook created
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student. It was his third social site, but obviously most prolific. Source -
First YouTube video was posted
Entitled "me at the zoo", the first YouTube video was 19 seconds long, made by Jawed Karim, the cofounder. Source
