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ARPA is created
the Advanced Research Projects Agency is created so that computers could communicate in case of nuclear attack. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
These computers are the first server hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
ARPAnet network established
A network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN Technologies (the company that created the IMP (Interface Message Processor)) is created. -
Email developed
Email was developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later became the domain name). -
TCP/IP established
A proposal was made to link ARPA-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would not have central control, and would work around a transmission control protocol, which eventually became TCP/IP -
First PC modem invented
The PC modem was invented by Dale Heatherington and Dennis Hays, and was initially sold to and known about exclusively by computer hobbyists. -
First spam email sent
The first spam email was sent by Gary Thuerk to 600 ARPAnet users to advertise his DECSYSTEM-20 computers. -
The first multiplayer game is released - MUD
MUD, short for Multi-User Dungeon, is an early genre of entirely text-based multiplayer Role Playing Games, and is the precursor to today's MMORPGs. -
The first emoticon "invented"
Scott Fahlman propsed using a colon, hyphen, and a closing paranthetical in sequence to represent a smiley face after a joke, like so: "Why couldn't the squirrel talk to his friends? Because he was nuts! :-)" -
DNS invented
DNS, short for Domain Name System, is invented. DNS allowed one to not have to type in a domain's IP address, and instead simply type in that address's associated domain name. For example, typing 74.125.224.72 into the address bar would take you to google.com. -
WWW protocols completed
Tim Berners-Lee completes the HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), and makes the first successful communication between an HTTP client and a server. -
First website created
CERN created the first website in 1991, and its purpose was to explain the WWW. -
Webcam invented
The first webcam was made at the University of Cambridge and displayed a 128x128 grayscale image of a coffee pot, so that people could always know whether there was coffee in there or not, so they didn't have to make trips to the coffee pot in vain.
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Mosiac 1.0 released
Mosiac, the first "popular" web browser with a GUI, went from beta to version 1.0. It set a high standard for internet browsing, and was the foundation for other big browsers, mainly Internet Explorer. The creators of Mosiac, also the founders of Netscape, went on to found Netscape Navigator.
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Amazon.com goes online
Amazon has revolutionized the commerce industry, and practically created the e-commerce industry. Millions of items are being sold there, and they have created the " the Wal-Mart of the online world".
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Google website goes online
Google started out as a simple search engine, and ended up becoming synonymous with the internet itself.
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First phone with internet released
The first phone with a WAP (wireless application protocol) browser, able to surf the web, was the Nokia 7110, which was released in the last october of the 2nd millenium.
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HTML5 is born
Sometime in January, the WHATWG began development on the 5th revision of the HTML standard, dubbed HTML5. Although the official stable release is slated for sometime in 2020, HTML5 is already in wide use, making websites look beautiful, with the help of the new CSS3. HTML5 has helped greatly modernize the internet.
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Thefacebook.com goes online
Before purchasing the facebook.com domain, Facebook started out on a thefacebook.com, restricted to Harvard students only. The website has revolutionized how we interact with people, and has made many dozens of other social media sites pop up as well.
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youtube.com goes online
YouTube has changed and entertained the lives of many hundreds of millions of people. Many people make a living off of it, and others use it every day to find out new things or to satisfy their curiosities.
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First iPhone released
This "historic" date changed the world forever. The iPhone looked very different from other smartphones of its day, and it was even ridiculed for having only one button. However, it became popular very quickly, and set a new standard for smartphones.
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Google Chrome released
Before Chrome, IE was the dominant browser, and with little competition it got lazy. Google took advantage of this by creating its own browser called Chrome, which currently has a 39% worldwide usage share.
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