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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
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. -
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
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. -
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. -
The first type of wireless internet (Wifi) was created
Wifi
NCR Cooperation and AT&T Coorperation created the WaveLAN, which was originally supposed to be used for cashier systems. -
The first music archive of downloadable songs was created
Online Music Store
The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993. This was the first time people could legally download music on the internet. -
ESPN Online was created
ESPN
ESPN created an online website (called ESPNet.SportsZone.com at the time) to go along with their popular television station (created in 1979). This website gives imformation about sporting events and is presently called espn.go.com. -
The first internet phone
Internet Phone
The AT&T PocketNet Phone was the first cell phone that allowed internet access. However, this was a prototype phone and never actually shipped to the general market. -
Google is created
Google
One of the most well known search engines was created by Larry Page and Sergy Brin. -
Skype was created
Skype
Skype was a way for people to communicate face to face via the internet without actually being with each other. Each person is on one end of a camera and they can see each other's faces. -
Facebook was created
Facebook
Facebook, a very popular social network was created by Mark Zuckerberg along with his college roomates and classmates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. -
Twitter was created
Twitter
A social network designed to send out 140 character messages called 'tweets' was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. -
The first iPhone was created
iPhone
On Jan. 9th, 2007, Steve Jobs announced that there will be an iPhone coming out. On June 29th, 2007, the first ever iPhone was released to the public. This is a cellphone, computer, arcade, and mp3 player all in one! -
Instagram was created
Instagram
A popular social network for teens and young adults was created to allow people to share photos with one another by posting them on the site. Instagram is a website and an app.
