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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 source -
Computers at Stanford and ULCA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet source -
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 source -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the username from the computer name (which later on because the domain name) source -
Phones programmed with internet
In 1973, the first phone with internet connection was invented. It was a Motorola researcher and executive, who made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment. website [source]( -
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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) source -
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The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes ans Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists source -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk source -
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, ineractive, fiction, and online chat.[source]( -
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The first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used. While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticonin 1979,it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie. source -
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. source -
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The World Wide Web protocol finished
The code for World wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from he year before, along wit the standards for HTML,HTTP,and URLs. source -
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 email was, its purpose was to explain what the world wide web was. source -
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