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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack. -
Computers at Standford 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 @ sympol to seperate the user name from the computer name (which later 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 become TCP/IP) -
Apple is founded
appleThe company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977. -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was intoduced and intially sold to computer hobbyist. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 california Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
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. -
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 MaKenzie. -
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.
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Photoshop was created
photoshopIn 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. -
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 was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Amazon is created
AmazonJeff Bezos incorporated the company (as Cadabra) in July 1994 and the site went online as Amazon.com in 1995. -
Google is created
GoogleGoogle began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. -
Netflix was created
NetflixThe company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California -
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Twitter is created
TwitterThe first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006 -
Facebook was created
Facebook Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address. -
Tumblr was created
TumblrTumblr was launched in February 2007 and within two weeks, the service had gained 75,000 users -
Bing
BingOn July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they had made a ten-year deal in which the Yahoo! search engine would be replaced by Bing.
