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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 (company that created the "interface message processor" in 1970 was created
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developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to separate the user name from computer name (which later on became the domain name)
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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 hobbyist
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the first unsolicited commerial email massage(later known as spam), was sent to 600 Califonia Arpanet user by Gary Thuerk
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the precuur to world of warcraft and second life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MltiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirley 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 then 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 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 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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brought some major innovations to the world wide internet. the first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its ppurpose was to explain what the world wide web was
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why was google made Back when the internet was young, people wanted a way to find what they were looking for. This created the first search engine: archie. This sparked the creation of other search engines such as Alta Vista. However, these search engines only returned sponsored results. So people wanted a way to find the entire web in one place. This sparked the idea of google.
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wiki was madeAs of September 2014, Wikipedia includes over 33.4 million freely usable articles in 287 languages[1] that have been written by over 48 million registered users and numerous anonymous contributors worldwide.[6][7][8] According to Alexa Internet, Wikipedia is the world's sixth-most-popular website.[9] Wikipedia's total worldwide monthly readership is approximately 495 million;[10] according to comScore, Wikipedia receives over 85 million monthly unique visitors from the United States alone.[11]
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youtube createdYouTube, the video sharing website based in San Bruno, California, is the world’s biggest host of user generated video content. From movie clips to home made videos, from music videos to documentaries; YouTube is a storehouse of visual data. The company was formed by three Paypal employees — Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
