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Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Computers at stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.
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An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN computers used to connect to the network in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed.
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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. -
Apple
Apple started in 1976, and made one of the first computers now a days you can use a portable phone called the IPhone which can use the internet basically everywhere.
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The First Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented bt Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is Born
The firsr unsolicited commercial email message, 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
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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
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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
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First Web Page Was Created
brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
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Google
Google allows people to look up information, just about everything using the internet.
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Vine
Vine is a social media app and site that allows you to share 6 second videos to others over the internet.
Vine
