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Advanced Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack. -
Computers at Standford and UCLA conencted for the first time
The first hosts on what one day would become the internet -
An Arpanet network was established
Netword 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
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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
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 expain what the Wordl Wide Web was. -
Michael's Art store website
Michaels
Michael's art store website was created back in 1996 on the internet. -
Google is first created
Google's creation
Google was created in 1998 to be used as, and still is, a large search engine that is popular. -
DeviantArt was created
DeviantArt's creation
DeviantArt was founded for non-professional or famous artists to gather on the internet and look at each other's work. -
Creation of YouTube
Youtube creation
The first submitted video compilation was created for the internet. -
Paint Tool Sai's creation
Paint's Creation
Paint tool sai was created as a painting software that is only accessable through internet download and internet purchase. -
Tumblr was first created
Tumblr's creation
Tumblr was first created in 2007 to be developed for a free social network on the internet. -
The release of Steam Timeline
Steam's creation
The creation of the gaming platform was released for the internet consumers to use as well as a social platform. -
The creation of RPnation
RPnation creation
RPnation was created offically at 2010 for the use of the members on the internet to interact and roleplay. -
Minecraft's Creation
Minecraft Creation
Minecraft, a multiplayer sandbox, was first released with an internet capadability to play multiplayer with other users. -
Rose wholesale's website was created
Rose wholesale (Bottom)
Rose wholesale's online shopping website was first published.