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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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. -
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) -
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 modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
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. -
First LabtopLabtops being invented was a huge step for technology and the online web.
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MTV.com
Robert Pittman, a media executive created mtv.com -
Fantasy Football
Fantasy football was created. -
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. -
AOL.com Aol was one of the first popular sites used be kids.
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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
automatically. -
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. -
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. -
Google Google was made by two stanford graduates that wanted it to be easier to surf the web. Later these graduates would sell the search engine for 1.4 billion dollars.
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Facebook Facebook bursted onto the internet in 2004 and became a huge hit.
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Youtube Youtube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Youtube was sold to google for 1.65 billion dollars.
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Twitter Twiter burst into teen lives in 2006
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Instagram In just 2 years its value reached to 1 billion dollars.
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Bing.com Bing is becoming more used every day as a good searchengine.
