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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 in 1970 was created. -
Email was first devolped
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). -
Apple computer was born
AppleApple is a company that creates computers and other devices that allow you to search the internet. -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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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
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. -
Ebay started
Ebay started Ebay is a website where you can buy and sell things for whatever price you choose. -
Fox news started
Fox newsFox news is one the only news channel I watch because I agree with how they bias the information. -
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When Youtube came out
YoutubeOne of my favorite websites to be on is youtube. Youtube allows you to watch videos that other users created. -
Walt Disney Animation Studios started
Walt Disney Animation Walt disney started animating and featured there website online for people to access. -
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When Instagram came out
Instagraminstagram is an app/website that lets you post photos and interact with other people.