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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk
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Computer mouse invented
In 1968 Douglas C. Engelbart unveiled his invention from 4 years prior, the computer mouse.
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on
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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
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The beginning of TCP/IP
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
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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
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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 elements of role-playing games,
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First Laptop
The laptop computer was invented and sold for about $1,795.
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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 :-)
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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
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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,
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First web page created 1991 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
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USB invented
First USB technology began development
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Yahoo
Yahoo, a web service provider, was invented as a very small website.
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Google creation
The extremely popular search engine google was founded by 2 guys.
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Myspace
Myspace, a social media website, was founded by 3 people.
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Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg invented the social media, Facebook.
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YouTube founded
YouTube, a popular video sharing service, was created.
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Twitter Created
A group of four people founded the popular social media, twitter.
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