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Email is invented and becomes the most used tool on the ARP net very quickly.
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The first ARP net mailing lists is sharing peoples interests.
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The first Usenet groups are established,
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The first emoticon, smiley :-), is invented by Carnegie Mellon University by Professor Scott Fahlman.
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Socializing online is inventeed, allowing computers to exchange messages with a group.
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John Guare captures public imagination of the power of social networks.
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AOL allows users to Instant Message (IM) online.
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AOL introduces AIM which allows users to IM not on AOL
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Sixdegrees.com is the first Internet social site that links users to friends.
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eHarmony.com is the first online dating site that lets users take a personality test.
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President Bill Clinton signs the CIPA that blocks ferderaly subsidized public and school libraries that blocks childrens access to pornography.
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Professor Duncan Watts used forward e-mails to confirm the "six-degrees-of-seperation".
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Myspace is made
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CIPA blocks Internet sites in public school libraries.
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Rupert Murdoch buys Myspace for $580 million.
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Legislatures in several states consider requiring bills that conduct background checks of users on online dating sites.
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Adults act like teens on Internet Chatrooms nd arrange to meet sexual predators.
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The Deleting Online Predators Act blocks children's access to socialnetworking sites, chatrooms, and socializing technology.
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Social Software spreads to AOL, Netscape, Google, and Yahoo.
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Americans spend $521 million on online dating which makes online dating the biggest income generator on the World Wide Web.