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ARPANET
The was the first network to use packet-switching technology. -
Email
Email was first created in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, who also decided that the @ symbol to seperate the user name and the computer name. -
CYCLADES
This was a network set up by France that was a lot like ARPANET. -
The PC Modem
The first PC modem was made in 1977 by Dennis Hayse and Dale Heatherington. -
Spam is Born
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MUD
This was the first form of multiplayer online games. -
Usenet
This was an internet based discussion system, allowing people from all over the globe to talk to eachother. -
Domain Name Systems
This changed IP adresses into something more human friendly, the URLs. -
The Internet Grows
There are now 30,000 users using the internet at this point. -
INC
This is when Internet Relay Chat was made and this was the basis for real-time chat we use now. -
Proposal For The World Wide Web
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First Web Page Created
This page explained what email was, how it worked and how the World Wide Web worked. -
The First Webcam
This was made to solely focus on a coffee pot at Cambridge. -
First Grpahical Web Browser
Mosaic was the first widely downloaded web browser. -
First Web-based Service
Hotmail was the first web-based service, and was launched in 1996. -
Google
Google was launched this year. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is launched this year. -
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 tools are intorduced to the public on the World Wide Web
