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Sputnik is Launched
The Soviet Union launched its first spacecraft satellite "Sputnik" into orbit. The launch brought the United States Department of Defense to to care more about science and technology projects. This also led to the creation of ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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Arpa is created
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Packet Switching is Born
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ARPANET was Handed Over
ARPANET was handed over to BBN Planet (GTE). BBN received its first mini-computer, containing only 12 kilobytes
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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 the company that created the computers used to connect to the network (Harvard, MIT, and BBN) was created. -
Email was first developed
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First Email Sent
The first email was sent by a computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson. When it was first sent in 1971, it was simply a test to message himself. The message, although sent to a computer next to him, was sent through the ARPANET.
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The Internet is Born
Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London and Royal Radar Establishment connect to ARPANET.
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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 Queen Sends an Email
Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.
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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. -
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 Term "cyberspace" is Used
William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer," is the first to use the term "cyberspace."
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The Domain Name 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. -
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. -
ARPANET is Shut Down
As technology advanced, ARPANET became too slow and old for anyone to really use anymore. Because no one used it, the shutdown went without much notice or care.
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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! is Created
Originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.", Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering students at Stanford University.
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The Internet is growing
The amount of people using the internet reaches 16 million
