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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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The mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart and made scrolling easier on the computer
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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
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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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The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson
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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 modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first spam email was sent by a computer operator system.
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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 worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat.
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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 MacKenzie
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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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The first GIF was invented by Steve Wilky
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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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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 banner ad was exposed to the internet by ATNT
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EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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WebTV is introduced for the first time
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Facebook was released to the public
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The Internet goes is released to the world.
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The first you tube video is released
