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Modem was a device created to allow signals to be sent across ordinary telephone lines.
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ARPANET was a small network of computers that intended to share scientific research between a handful of universities and military organizations in 1969. -
The first email was created in 1971 to be able to share letters/messages over the internet. -
Ray Tomlinson was the creator of the email as well as deciding the "@" symbol. -
The first video game was Maze War but it was adapted for online conversion. -
Emoticons were little icons created to show emotion in an online message. -
Ethernet was a system that connected numerous computer systems to form a local area network with protocols. -
DNS Domain Name System became the "phone book" of the internet collecting IP addresses. -
AOL was the first internet-based email when it came about.
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GIF was created to convert colorful images to be able to reduce its size into a downloadable file in 1987. -
Tim Berners-Lee was the designer and creator of the World Wide Web. -
Multimedia Streaming was made to allow videos and media to be shared. -
The first smartphone was invented in 1992 by IBM. -
Mosaic was the first web browser.
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Vinton Cerf came up with the idea of computers communicating with each other across the globe in a virtual space. -
Google became an internet search engine for many things. -
Wikipedia was the first community-based encyclopedia created in 2001.
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Facebook had become an online social network where people could connect with others. -
Youtube was created and had became a free online video sharing and hosting. -
Instagram was created with the intent of making friends and sharing photos online with one another.