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Advanced Research Projects Agency aka ARPA
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the 1st time
The 1st hosts on what would one day become the internet -
An Arpanet network was established
Networks between Harvard, MIT and BBN ( The company that created "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created -
E-Mail was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the ''@'' or (At) symbol to separate the Username 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)
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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 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
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. -
Invention of Amazon
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com]
Originally Carabra
In 1994 Jeff Bezos created Carabra which in 1995 became Amazon -
Craigslist Creation
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist]
In 1995 Craig Newmark used his website to tell news and ask questions with friends in San Fransisco -
Ebay's Stating
[http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~magnus/ief248a/eBay/history.html]
Pierre Omidyar created eBay To be a personal website, "It was a Hobby" -
Creation of Netflix
[http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/21/showbiz/gallery/netflix-history/]
Mike Rudolph and Two other software developers in 1997 came up with netflix. Originally people took it as a joke because of it competition (Blockbuster) was at one time a 5 Billion Dollar Company but because of technology blockbuster eventually died and People use Netflix -
TripAdvisor's Creation
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripAdvisor]
Was created as a travel review website -
Orbitz Uprising
[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/orbitz-inc-history/]
It was created by 5 airlines (United,Delta,Contential and Northwest) -
Beginning of Linkedin
[https://ourstory.linkedin.com]
Ried Hoffman and fellow colleagues from PayPal created LinkedIn
.At the beginning it was slow with as low as 20 people signing up daily -
MySpace Creation
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/myspace-history-timeline_n_887059.html]
Was at one time the most popular social media website -
When Facebook Launched
[http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3] Originally called the Facebook
It was created in 2004 by a Harvard grad by the name of Mark Zuckerburg. between launch until 2006 it was for Harvard Students. -
Creation of YouTube
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Controversial_content]
In 2006 YouTube was bought by Google in 2006 for 1.26 Billion
Dollars, because of Google, YouTube became what is today. -
First Video to reach 1 million views on YouTube
[https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-first-video-to-hit-one-million-YouTube-views-How-long-did-it-take-for-it-to-reach-one-million-views]
The video to reach 1 million views was an ad from nike -
Twitter's begins
[http://www.businessinsider.com/how-twitter-was-founded-2011-4]
In 2006 ex Google employee Evan Williams created Odeo which later became Twitter
