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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet. -
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 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). -
The 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 – The earliest form of multiplayer games was 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 elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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 automatically. -
Online shopping is created
instantshift.com Community of software developers and shareware authors got an online market where they could sell their product using “Merchant account”. Which is today known as online shopping. -
The first version of Microsoft Word for Windows was invented
secretguide.net Of all the word-processing programs ever invented, the coolest and most used is Microsoft Word. -
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 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. -
The first webcam was invented
twentytwowords.com People in computer labs at the University of Cambridge developed the first webcam. They set up the webcam so everyone around the building could know if there was coffee in the coffee pot or not. -
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The first banner ad invaded the internet
makeuseof.com The first banner ad was part of AT&Ts “you will” campaign, and was placed on the HotWired homepage. -
Google is created
google.com Google was originally created by two students at Standford. Google was originally titled BackRub which later changed to Google. -
iTunes is created
maclife.com For many mac users, iTunes was an introduction to digital music. After making millions of dollars in only a couple of months, iTunes was updated to fit what the people wanted of it. -
Facebook was invented
about.com College students from Harvard hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computr network and invented this social network. -
Youtube is launched
crunchbase.com Youtube was founded in 2005 and later in 2006, was acquireed by Google Inc. -
Twitter is created
140characters.com @Jack’s first tweet was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type what your doing and send it.
