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USSR Launches Sputnik
USSR launches Sputnik into space and with it, global communications are established. -
Bell Labs Invents Modem
Bell labs reasarchers invent the modem which converts digital signals to electrical signals and back, enabling communication between computers. -
Fist integrated circuit
The first integrated crcuit is first developed by Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby. It was first demonstated on september 12, 1968. -
First Connection
The first network experiment linking two computers takes place between th TX-2 computer by Lincoln Labs and the Q-32 mainframe operated by the RAND corporations System Development Corporation. -
Unix
Another milestone whose design heavily influenced that of Linux and FreeBSD. -
Arpanet
Arpanet was the first network to run on packet switching technology. First hosts of what would one day become the internet. -
Email
Email was first developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. He was the one who proposed the "@" symbol be used to sperate the persons name from the computer. -
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. -
MUD - First form of multiplayer games
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and were entirely text based virtual worlds. -
The First Emoticon
Scott Fahlman in 1982 used :-) after a joke, rather than the -) proposed by Kevin MacKenzie. The modern emoticon was born. -
Domain Name System
Created in 1984 the domain was important because it made addresses on the internet more human friendly. -
Internet Relay Chat
First developed paving the way for real-time chat and the instant messaging programs we use today. -
First Web Page
The first web page, like the first email, was to explain what the world wide web was. -
Google was Created
Went live in 1998, revolutionizing th way in which people find information online. -
internet-based file-sharing
In 1998 Napster launched, opening up the gates of mainstream file-sharing of audio files over the internet. -
Social Media and Digg
Digg, a scial news site, launched paving the way for sites like Reddit, Mixx, and Yahoo. -
NASA Communications
NASA successfully tests the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Using software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, dozens of space images are transmitted to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about more than 32 million kilometers from Earth. -
SOPA/PIPA
A major online protest shook up U.S. Congressional support for two anti-Web piracy bills - the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate.
