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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 used 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 netwroks 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 first 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 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 words, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.
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The first emoticon was used while many people 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
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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.
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Steve Jobs amde the Macintosh for everyday people so that way it wasn't as complicated as the "Lisa"
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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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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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Ebay was started as a market place where people could list and buy goods and it was created by Pierre Omidyar
Ebay is founded -
Lary Page and Sergey Brin wanted to make a new search engine so they made google between the ages of 23 and 24
Google is created -
It was made so that way customers could easily find and purchase songs without subscription fees
iTunes is created -
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook at the age of 23, even though he was studying physcology. He was very good with computers and technology
Facebook is created -
Youtube was created to make and share videos such as movie clips, or home made videos and to generate as many views as possible
YouTube is created -
The owner wanted a page where messages could be listed as MP3 and wanted it to be able to share with as many people as possible
Twitter is launched -
It was a search engine created by microsoft to replace its former search engine
Bing is launched -
It was created to fix up the other photo sharing sites and it wanted to be better than all of the others
Instagram is launched -
It was made to embrace mobile apps and to work well wit our new and improved platforms.
Windows 10 is launched
