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Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPA is created which found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Computers Connected
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet. -
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 Developed
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). -
First Portable Computer
Altair produces the first portable computer
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Apple Computers
Apple Computers were founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
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Presidential candidates using Email
Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.
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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 (Earliest form of multiplayer games debut)
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. -
Computer Usage
Over half a million computers are in use in the United States.
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The First Emoticon
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. -
Word "Internet"
The word “Internet“ is used for the first time.
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First Domain Name Server (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. -
Virus
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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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. -
Computer Growth
42% of American adults have used a computer
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First Web Page Created
This brought 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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Napster
First music file-sharing service Napster went live
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