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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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. -
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) -
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 modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
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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Today, ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports, reaches more than 100 million US households and is delivered in many languages to countless countries around the world -
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
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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. -
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. -
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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The first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot -
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The disk mailings connected thousands of households to the Internet, and two years later we reached our one million member mark. In 2010 they celebrated their 25th anniversary. -
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Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web." Renamed it to Yahoo. -
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It was called Napster, would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever. -
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Google was created by Larry Page and Sergy Brin and they were both computer science grads from Stanford. -
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Created by a small group of programmers who already had an Internet company, MySpace has grown by leaps and bounds. MySpace soon became one of the largest online companies. -
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Facebook is the second largest social network on the web, it has been able to obtain 8 million users in the U.S. alone and it was created by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. -
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YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park and they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google. -
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By Jawed Karim (one of the founders of the site) and was 18 seconds long, entitled “Me at the zoo”. -
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets & was created by Jack Dorsey.
