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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
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
elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
Online shopping first created
Invention of Online Shopping
Michael Aldrich changed the ways of buissness when he created what was originally called teleshopping, and is now known as online shopping. -
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 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. -
Amazon.com launches
Amazon.com History
Amazon.com officially goes online and, on July 1st, sells its first book. -
The launch of Hotmail
Hotmail
Hotmail, one of the first popular web-based email providers, is launched on this day. -
Vint Cerf presented with a medal
Vint Cerf
Known as the "Father of the Internet", Vint Cerf and his colleauge Robert Kahn were presented with the U.S. National Medal of Technology by Bill Clinton, the reason being for founding and developing the Internet. -
First version of Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player
A program called Macromedia Media Flash Player 2 was realeased, which would eventually become Adobe Flash Player. -
Google was created
History of Google
Google.com was registered as a domain and would become a very popular searrch engine. -
Napster was created
Napster
The file-sharing website Napster that was quick to become popular was created by Shawn Fanning. -
The launch of Wikipedia
History of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is formally opened on this day by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, and eventually becomes the most popular reference site on the Internet. -
iTunes Store opens
iTunes History
Apple launches the iTunes Store, one of the first online stores to legally sell popular music for digital download. -
