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Introduction of the internet
In October,1969 Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first network available -
History of email
Ray Tomlison invented email and used its @ as a symbol to separate username from the computer name as its used to sending messages to one another -
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first trans-Atlantic connection
Arpanet made its first international connection from Atlantic to the University collage of London. The term internet was born -
First provider
The first internet provider was born known as Telenet used for cable television and mobile telephone services located in Belgium and invented by Bolt Beranek and Newman(BBN) -
The Queen sent her first Email
Queen Elizabeth II sent her first email from signals and radar establishments in England, and was the first Monarch to send an email. -
PC Modem
Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington invented the first Pc modem which was able to convert computer information to the Modem for storage -
Spam is born
In 1978, 600 users in California by Arpanet were spammed by Gary Thuerk -
The first emoticon as a joke
Kevin Mackenzie made the first emoticon in 1979, but in 1982 Scott Fahlman proposed using a emoticon after a joke -
The Domain name system
The Domain name system(DNS) established the easy, familiar .com,.org,.net and switched it out with numbered websites -
The population of the internet
By 1987 there were about 30,000 hosts on the internet and Arpanet protocol were limited to 1000 hosts but Arpanet was switched with Tcp/Ip and were able to have more hosts to join -
Internet relay chat
In 1988, Internet relay chat(IRC) was developed as its first real chat and instant messaging program. -
The first ever Mp3
The Mp3 was introduced for files, but was very popular, for sharing and saving songs and albums. -
Yahoo is born
Yahoo was invented by Jerry Yang and David Filo. The site was originally called Jerry and David's guide to the world wide web -
Netflix
Netflix was founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph which was a company that sent users DVDs by mail -
Google
Google was born, and it changed how users found information -
The SQL Slammer worm
The SQL slammer worm affected 75,000 users in 10 mins -
YouTube is found
In 2005 YouTube launched and was founded by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. -
The Internets anniversary
It was the Internets 40th anniversary since the internet opened -
Instagram and pinterest are born
In 2009 Instagram was born and was invented by Kevin Systrom and owned by Facebook. and pinterest were launched by Paul Sciarra -
Google assiatant
Google finally comes out with a voice activated personal assistant. Google joins amazon Alexa and Siri from apple.
