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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 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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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computers hobbyists.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 california Arpanet users by Gray Thuerk.
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The precursor to World of War 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.
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The first emoticon was used While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoction in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using ;-) after a joke, rather than an original -) proposed by MacKenzie.
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The first domain Name Servers was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP adress automatically.
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The code for the World Wide Wed 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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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.
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In 1999, the founders of Google tried to sell it to Excite for 1 million but Excite turned it down. source
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3 founders of you tube were actually former paypal employees.
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Snapchat originally was called Picaboo but the Spiegels changed the name while creaying the app in his living room.
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Instagram was acquired by Facebook for about 1 billion dollars in cash and stock.
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The day of the Boston Marathon bombing a record breaking 19,667 vines were created.
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Bing teamed up with Klout to create Klout verified snapshots.
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In 2014 apple profit was about 39.5 billion dollars which is enough to buy snapchat and airbnb with a few billion to spear.
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