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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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The first hosts on what would one day become the internet
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Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computer used to connect to the network)
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Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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- 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).
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Apple IApple-1, was released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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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
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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
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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
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The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his
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HTML Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990.
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brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
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yahoo
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Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States.
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ebayAuctionWeb was founded in California, on September 4, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar (born June 21, 1967) as part of a larger personal site.
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googleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.
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myspaceMyspace (originally: 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.
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youtubeThe service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
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twitterTwitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006.
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watch espn is an Internet television website and mobile application operated by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and the Hearst Corporation (which holds the remaining 20% interest).
