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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. -
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. -
Yahoo was founded
Yahoo Yahoo is a news/social media website that about 700 million people go on the internet to use every month. -
Netflix is created
Netflix is created Netflix was created to help people at home watch movies within their home for low paments every month. -
Webs was created
Webs was created Webs.com is a free/cheap website that enables any person to make as many websites as they want on the internet. -
Wikipedia launched
Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that can help people find out information about just about anything. Although this website is an amazing advantage, almost anyone with internet access can hack and change the information, although most people just leave Wikipedia alone for other people to view. -
H&M was created
H&M H&M is a very poplular online store where anybody world wide can purchase some of their many clothing and home items. -
Apple's website was launched
Apple Apple is a very poplular cell phone/electronics company. They have made over 10 different types of Apple products, all hitting the market big. When technology became very important, Apple made a website which many people use to purchase their apple products within the touch of a button in their own home using the internet. -
Bing was created
Bing Bing is an online website that searches a lot of different sites online to help answer questions that any person may have. Bing is also like Google but is run by different people and is a lot less popular. -
Instagram first launched
Instagram Instagram is a very poplular social media website/app that uses the internet to share private/public photos and short videos to anyone on the internet. -
iFunny was created
iFunny was created IFunny is the app that uses the internet to help connect millions of people with other people just like them judging by humor and points of view. -
The app Temple Run was released on the Apple App Store
Temple run Temple Run is an app game that went viral in the year 2011. So popular that they made as many as three other sequal/spinoff games. This game uses internet to help players connect and verse other people on their smart phones.
