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Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA)
Found a way computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
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 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 -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into so-called "inter-networks" which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol -
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 was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
the precursors to World of Warcraft and Second Life was devoloped in 1979 and was call Mud. Muds were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing-ames , 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 then the original -) proposed by MacKenzie -
The domain name system was created
The first domain name servers was created. the domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the internet more human friendly. Compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted to the IP adress automatically -
World Wide Web protocols finished
Teh 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 -
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MP3 file was created
Brandenburg and his team settle on a file extension for the audio format, shortening MPEG1, Layer 3 to MP3.
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The first blogs were made
The first blogs started to be created by useing new web publishing tools
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youtube was founded
YouTube was founded in February 2005, as a destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through the Web
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