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Advanced Research Projects Agency
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the 1st time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN 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 (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 centeral control and would work around transmission control protocol (eventually became TCP/IP) -
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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 was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (MultiUser Dungeon) MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing hames, interactive, fiction, and online chat -
First Emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used while many people credit Keven MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon n 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie -
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 Interned 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
The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain waht the World Wide Web was. -
Google.com Registerd as a domain
Google's History On September 15th 1997, google.com became a registered domain -
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