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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 -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name (which later became the domain name) -
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg, a project where the goal is to make public domain books and documents available electronically, is created. -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like network together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocal (which eventually became TCP/IP) -
First All-Inclusive E-mail
First All-Inclusive E-mail John Vittal developed MSG, the first all inclusive e-mail program to offer reply, forward, and filing capabilities -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by dennis Hates 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 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
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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
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The First Online Shopping Program
The First Online Shopping Program Minitel creates Videotext, the first program capable of making online purchases, checking markets, searching telephone directories, and chatting -
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
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PSInet is Born
PSInet is Born One of the first Internet Service Providers, PSInet, is founded by Martin L. Schoffstall and by William L. Schrader -
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. -
Netflix is Released
Netflix is Released Netflix is released as a DVD rental-by-mail company, cofounded by Reed Hastings -
Google is Created
Google is Created The search engine Google is registered as a domain. It's a play on the word "googol", a mathematical term that respresent the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. -
TheSpark (Sparknotes) is Created
TheSpark (Sparknotes) is Created TheSpark (now known as Sparknotes) is launched by Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Croyne, and Eli Bolotin -
Over 1 Billion Pages
It is estimated that there are now over 1 billion pages on the internet -
Limewire is Launched
Limewire is Launched Limewire was used to download music, movies, and other files for free. It was discontinued in 2010. -
Wikipedia is Launched
Wikipedia is Launched Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger formally launch Wikipedia. Initially it was supposed to aid the encyclopedia site Nupedia, but quickly overtook the site and became its own enitity.
