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Advanced Research Projects Agency
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",
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Microsoft was founded
Microsoft was Founded Microsoft was founded in 1975 (a little bit after Apple) by Bill Gates who is an internet phenominon. Microsoft software gives us all of the icons and internet connection that you see on our desktops today. -
Apple Inc. started
Apple FoundedApple started in 1976 by Steve Jobs. He introduced his first Apple product, (the Apple 1) on May of 1976. -
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
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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
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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
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Dell Computers was created
Dell Dell was created by Michael Dell who would look inside Apple computers to get his idea. The first Dell computer was made in 1985. -
The First Internet Worm Released
The First Internet Worm Released
The First Internet worm was made by Morris, a student at Cornell University. The worm contained 99 lines of C Code. -
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
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. -
Mosaic-The First successful Web Browser
Mosaic web browser
Mosaic was the first internet web browser created by NCSA(National Supercomputing Applications) On November 14th 1994, Moaaic was changed its name to Netscape. -
Adobe was created
AdobeAdobe was relased in 1997. Adobe came out with animation softwares and players that can allow you to watch videos with higher quality video. -
Google was created
Google was Created
Google (the most well known and most richest search engine in the world) was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The webstie was originally made in 1995 but the official Google was released in 1998. -
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The First Youtube Video
First Youtube VideoThe first video on Youtube was called, "Me at the Zoo" It was uploaded by Jawed Karim who is also the third founder of Youtube next toSteve Chen and Chad Hurley. -
First Internet Search Engine
Archie SearchThe first internet search engine was called Archie Query Form. This search engine was invetnted by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.
