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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" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created.
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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)
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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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http://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft/
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. -
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html
Jobs and Wozniak started out building the Apple I in Jobs' garage and sold them without a monitor, keyboard, or casing (which they decided to add on in 1977). The Apple II revolutionized the computer industry with the introduction of the first-ever color graphics.1 Sales jumped from $7.8 million in 1978 to $117 million in 1980, the year Apple went public. -
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk
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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 elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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https://info.yahoo.com/about-us
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http://www.biography.com/people/jeff-bezos-9542209#pioneering-e-commerce
After inviting 300 friends to beta test the site, Jeff Bezos opened Amazon.com, named after the meandering South American River, on July 16, 1995. -
https://www.google.com/about/company/
Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages. -
http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2327
In August 2003 Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas ZennströmOffsite Link, Janus FriisOffsite Link, and the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu launched the peer-to-peer voice over Internet ProtocolOffsite Link (VOIP) telephony service, SkypeOffsite Link. The name of the company evolved from "Sky peer-to-peer" or "Skyper." However some of the domain names associated with "Skyper" were already taken, so the final "r" was dropped leaving "Skype," for which domain names were available. -
https://www.facebook.com/facebook/info?tab=page_info
Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. -
https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
Launched in May 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. -
http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280#creation-of-twitter
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, the company's chief executive officer, posted the world's first tweet: "just setting up my twttr." -
http://www.inc.com/30under30/2011/profile-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-founders-instagram.html
Just after midnight on October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom signed into his Apple App Store control panel. "Here we go," he thought. With a click, Instagram, the photo-sharing app he'd created with Mike Krieger, was open to the world.
