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Sputnik Scare
Soviet Union launched the worlds first manmade satellite into orbit -
Email was created
Email was invented in Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Arpanet
The first real network to run on packet switching technology. -
Unix
The operating system whose design heavily influenced that of Linux and FreeBSD -
Project Gutenberg and Ebooks
Global effort to make books and documents in the public dominion available electronically for free in a variety of Ebook and electronic formats -
The start of TCP/IP
proposal was published to link Arpa like networks together into a so called inter network -
Email client
First modern email program was developed by John Vital -
The PC modem
The year the first PC modem developed by Dennis Hayes -
The Bulletin Board System
The first Bulletin Board system was developed during a blizzard in Chicago -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message -
The earliest form of multiplayer games
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed -
The first emoticon
Scott Falhman in 1982 who proposed using emoji after a joke -
Birthday of Internet
the official birthday of the interent -
Protocol Wars
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The internet grows
30,000 hosts on the internet. The original Arpanet protocol had been limited to 1000 hosts -
Internet reply chat
This paved the way for real time chat and instant messaging programs we use today -
Aol is launched
When Apple pulled out of the Apple lInk program in 1989 the project was renamed and America Online was born -
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