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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. -
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
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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 Person Computer Modem is invented
The modem was invented by Dennis hayes and Dale Heatherington and was introduced and intially 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. -
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
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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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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: First Search Engine
First Search Engine Archie (a.k.a. as Archive without the "v") was the first search engine. It has/had downloadable directory listing. -
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. -
First photo on internet
First Photo on the Internet Tim Berners-Lee put the first photo on the internet. It was of the band Les Horribles Cernettes. Many claim it was posted in July, the exact date is questionable. -
The first "internet" phone.
First Internet Phone AT&T and Unwired Planet designed the first internet enabled phone in 1996. It was the AT&T Pocketnet phone -
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iTunes launched
iTunes iTunes was launched by Apple Inc. It is an online music store selling songs, albums, tv series, and movies. -
The Facebook
Facebook Mark Zuckerburg created Facebook when he was 23 at Harvard. Facebook started off as "The Facebook" and later changed to "Facebook.com" -
First Billion Internet Users
First Billion Internet Users The internet hit 1 Billion users in 2005. The second Billion occured in 2010. The third billion occured in 2014. -
First Youtube Video
First Youtube Video The first youtube video was posted by Jawed Karim, a cofounder of Youtube. It was a 18 second long video titled "Me at the zoo",. -
Pandora Radio launched
Pandora Radio Pandora Radio was launched. It is an internet radio that creates stations including songs similar to the user's likes. Ex. A Taylor Swift station includes Taylor Swift songs plus similar songs. -
First Tweet
First Tweet! Jack Dorsey sent the very first tweet, on Twitter, on March. 21, 2007 at 3:50 PM. It stated "just setting up my twtter".
