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The first mechanical computer
computerThe first computer was founded from Charles Babbage, the father of the computer. When it was invented, the big computer that could easily take up more than half a room, it could compute a set of numbers, much like a calculator, and make hard copies of a document. Mr. Babbage named his project, computer, the Difference Machine. Despite the ingenious invention, the funding was cut on it so it neither saw the glory nor the light of day in which it could have become. -
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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Advanced Research Projects (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
The first personal computer
The first personal computerBuilt by Olivetti, a computer company, the computer came about. Then, Olivetti needed to make an enterance to compete with the almighty American computers, so the CEO decided that they should make a smaller, more compatible computer to everyday living. In this computer, people could do what they could on the last computer, copy files, type, and make calculations and tables on it. As a result of not a lot of storage space on the computer, Olivetti made the revolutionary floppy disk. -
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 transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP) -
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 -
Spasm 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
elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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. -
Archie (Archive) was created
Achie was createdArchie, a creation Alan Emtage, was the first seach engine to be invented from a college project. This, became the beginning of all the search engines such as yahoo. Archie became popular because due to the public using the World Wide Web as choice, they needed it to be a lot easier to surf the web to find out what the person is looking for, which is how Archie surfaced. -
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 was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Yahoo! was created
Yahoo! David Filo and Jerry Yang created Yahoo as a collection of their favorite websites. As people started to use it, Mr. Filo and Mr. Yang then decided that they needed to make it a "searchable dictionary" and revised the website. Ultimately, this is a search engine that makes it easy to surf the web and find everything that the user wants. -
Dogpile was created
Dogpile was created'http://www.dogpile.com/support/aboutus' >Dogpile was created</a>It is powered by metasearch tecnology. This contains Yahoo! and Google search engines. Looking at all of the search engines, Dogpile tries to give you the best information that you are looking for and doesn't include diplicated of the information or websites in the search. It was created by Aaron Flin. -
Netflix was created
Netflix was createdReed Hastings and Marc Rudolf, software enginers, created Netflix. Then, it was easy to get access of movies and television shows through renting them and getting them delivered to your house. Now,not only is its purpose is to still have discs on rent, but also its purpose is to let the client easily stream the films or television shows too. -
Google was created
Google was createdGoogle, now a well known and used search engine, was created by university graduate students Page and Brin in a garage. There first client was Craig Silverstein and kept on climbing with clients. Now, they have emails for google and computers made from them too. -
Pandora Radio was created
Pandora Radio was createdCreated by Tim Weastergen, Pandora was made to stream music to people for their enjoyment. There, you can select a station and pick the music that you want. -
Youtube first arrived
Youtube first arrivedYoutube, a popular website, is founded by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen in 2005. This website is for sharing videos without much hassle. It became one of the web's fastest growing sites and became one of the top ten most popular website in 2006. -
Bing was created (http://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/history-search-engines/ and http://seosemandsocialnetworking.blogspot.com/2011/04/history-of-bing-search-engine.html)
Bing, another search engine that came after google started, although it was under a different name and was called MNS Search and Window Live Search in 1998; however, it really did come out in 2009. It was created and was presented to us by Steve Blammer, a CEO of Microsoft. Bing now powers Yahoo! search. -
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
MacKenzie.
