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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 connected 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 seperate the user name from the computer name ( which later on became the domain name)
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A proposal was publsihed 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 unsolicited commercial email message, was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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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-basd virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactie, 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 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 n umerical 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 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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It brought same major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, the purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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Amazon was created in Seattle, Washington. It was originally only for books, but has expanded to everything similar to Ebay.Amazon
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Yahoo was made on the internet for people to search the web.Yahoo
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Ebay is a online shopping website, and is still used today.Ebay
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Google is a massive search engine that lets you navigate and find information on the world wide web.Google
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SkypeSkype allows you to talk to your friends and family online.
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Facebook is createdFacebook is created, another social media website. You can post pictures, and thoughts here.
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Youtube was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.Youtube
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Twitter A social media site called twitter is created. You can send out 140 character messages to the world.
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Bing Another search engine, similar to Google is created. You can search the worldwideweb and you can use this to shop as well.
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Vine allows you to make short 6-second videos and post them. It is a social media website. Vine
