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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
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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
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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 Created
Yahoo was CreatedTwo people by the names of Jerry Yang and David Filo founded this site from their campus trailer. -
Amazon was Created
Amazon was CreatedIn July of 1994, Jeffery Bezos launches Amazon in his garage, after quitting his job. This website becomes one of the widely used websites today. -
Ebay was Created
Ebay was CreatedOn the thrid of September, a man by the name of Pierre Omidyar founded the now popular website in his living room. -
Google was Created
Google was createdThe company was filed for incorporation in California on this day. -
Myspace is created
Myspace is createdEmployess from eUniverse,an internet marketing, worked on this website. The people who worked on this were Chris DeWolfe,Brad Greenspan, Tom Anderson, and Josh Berman. -
Facebook is Created
Facebook is CreatedWhile studying in Harvard University, Mark Zuckerburg launched this website as "The Facebook". This website is used thourghout the internet today. -
Youtube was Created
Youtube was createdOn Febuary 14, 2005, three former employees of Paypal, whose names were Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, created a site where people from around the world can make and share videos in one place. -
Twitter is Created
Twitter is CreatedDuring a brainstorming for making new ideas for the podcasting company,Odeo, Jack Dorsey came up with an idea of a website that includes sending messages to a group of people. This website became known as Twitter. -
Bing is Created
Bing is CreatedThis website was revealed on May 28,2009 by Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer. This is the current search engine from Microsoft. -
Instagram is created
Instagram is createdThis site was created by two people by the names of Kevin Synstrom and Mike Krieger. The site received 10,000 users after only a few hours it was posted on the app store.
