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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. -
nike was invented
nike One of the most sucessful shoe companys of all time was invented by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight on this date. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.
The first hosts on what would one day be the internet. -
An Arpanet network was establihed.
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the" interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) was created in 1970. -
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 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). -
microsoft was founded
microsoftThe company microsoft was founded on this date by Bill Gates and Paul Allen -
Apple was founded
appleThe company apple fas invented by the founders Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak. -
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 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. -
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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 :-) after a joke, rather than the original proposed by MacKenzie. -
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 -
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. -
Google was first invented
google
On september 4 1998 google one of the most famous search engines was invented. -
Verizon was established.
verizon. one of the most popular phone and internet companys was established on this date in 2000 -
Facebook was first invented
facebook.The social networking service was created by Mark Zuckerberg on this date in 2004 -
Twitter was invented
twitter. twitter, the social network site was invented in march 2006 by Jack Dorsey. -
bing was invented
binganothe popular search engines was invented on may 28 2009 by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. -
instagram was founded.
instagram
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010.
