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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 wused 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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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 elements of role-plyaing 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 emoticon in 1979, it was Scot 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 domian name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counteroarts DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automattically.
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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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Broought some major innovations to the world of the Internet.; The first web page was created and, much like the email explained what eail was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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Amazon is an international company that is the world's largest online retailer
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Internet Explorer is a web browsers developed by Microsoft.
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Yahoo! is an American international Internet corporation. It is globally known for its, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services.
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GoogleGoogle is a large American corporation using Internet services. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies
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Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc.
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Skype allows you to communicate by using a microphone, a webcam, and instant messaging.
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Youtube is a free video-sharing website.
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Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking site.
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Twitter is a social networking site that lets users send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters
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Wifi is a technology that allows an electronic device to internet wirelessly using radio waves.
