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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 invented
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 -
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
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 -
First Picture uploaded
First Pictue on the Internet This is a picture of the Les Horribles Cernettes -
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Mozilla Firefox is created
Mozilla Firefox Mozilla is a search engine the helps you find things on the internet -
Myspace is created
[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/fashion/sundaystyles/28MYSPACE.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0](Myspace' <a href=)' >Myspace</a> Myspace is a social website that you can communicate with other people -
Facebook was created
Facebook Facebook is a social networking site that helps you stay in touch with people you know and people you don't know -
Safari is invented
[Safari](Safari' ><a href='http://www.ehow.com/about_5139105_history-safari-browser.html</a>) Safari is a search engine that was created by apple to work on apple products -
Youtube was created
[Youtube](Youtube' ><a href='http://wanttoknowit.com/when-was-youtube-created/</a>) Youtube is a video sharing website to help people learn things and to entertain people through videos -
Twitter was made
<ahref='>http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born
Twitter is a another social networking site where you can talk to people and all you followers can see -
tumblr
[Tumblr](Tumblr' ><a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/can-tumblrs-david-karp-embrace-ads-without-selling-out.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a>) tumblr is a webpage that you can post pictures for every one you following you can see -
Google Chrome is created
[http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_chrome.asp](Google Chrome' <a href=)' >Google Chrome</a> Google Chrome is a search engine created by google
