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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 (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
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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). -
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
MacKenzie. -
The Word "Internet" is used for the First Time
The word internet is used for the first timeThis one word has become an everyday thing and is always apart of our lives. -
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 explain what the World Wide Web was. -
The First Blog is Created
Blogs are createdNASA broacasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. It generates over 46 million hits in one day. This later leads to the term we know as a blog. -
Google
Google is CreatedThe most popular of search engines, Google was created on September 4, 1998. -
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Facebook is Created
Facebook is CreatedThe popular social media site Facebook was created. It now has over 1 billion people who are active on Facebook. -
Youtube Changes the Internet
Youtube was createdThe famous video sharing website, Youtube was created on February 14, 2005. This website has changed many lives since coming out. -
Netflix Introduces Streaming
Netflix introduces StreamingThe popular movie website Netflix introduced streaming movies and television shows off computers in 2007. Formerly a subscription company that delivered movies. -
Bing is Created
Bing is CreatedAnother popular search engine Bing was created as a challanger to the popular Google. -
Instagram is Created.
Instagram is CreatedThe popular social media picture site, Instagram is created. It now has over 300 million people who use the app every month. -
Draft Kings is Created
Draft KingsThe famous fantasy football website Draft Kings was created in 2011. Tons of people play fantasy football and this was a game changer to the fantasy football players.