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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for first time
The first hosts on what would one day
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An 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
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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). -
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The first Personel Computer Modern 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- the earliest form of multiplayer games debuted
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
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The First emoticon
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 domain name system was created
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
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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. -
First Web Page created
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. -
World wide Web availible to public
internet hall of fameThe World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet. -
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Internet Phones
Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology (which has been around for years) -
Internet traffic record broken by NASA
nasa breaks recordOn July 8, 1997, Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day. -
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Wikipedia
internet hall of fameJimmy Wales launches Wikipedia. There are half a million Internet users. -
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China dominated internet usage
internet hall of fameBy 2010, there are over 450 million Chinese Internet users. - -
Royal Wedding biggest internet event
internet hall of fame
Live streaming of Will and Kate’s wedding is the biggest event ever watched on the Internet
