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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- 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", 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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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
easy-to- remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically. -
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 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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Google chrome is created. [https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHXU_enUS761US761&q=when
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was+chrome+googlemade&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i8i7i30k1.3403.4322.0.6700.6.6.
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According to Google, the internet consisted of 5 Million Terabytes of Data.
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30,000 websites are hacked every day. Highly effective computer software programs are used by cybercriminals to automatically detect vulnerable websites which can be hacked easily.
https://fossbytes.com/10-interesting-facts-internet-really-need-know/ -
Approximately £1.7 trillion worth of funds is spent online. https://fossbytes.com/10-interesting-facts-internet-really-need-know/
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Of the 7 Billion People on Planet Earth, Over 2.4 Billion Use the Internet.
https://www.lifewire.com/surprising-facts-about-the-web-3862898 -
Every 60 Seconds, 72 Hours of YouTube Video Is Uploaded.
[https://www.lifewire.com/surprising-facts-about-the-web-3862898](timetoast.com)
