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First Automatic Computing System
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The computer source does not resemble anything close to what is used today but the idea of the system was created by Charles Babbage. -
Keyboard for Computers
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The keyboard was made based off of the typewriter. Christopher Latham Sholes made a keyboard which later was made with electric impulses to type. -
First Programmable Computer
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A German man, Konrad Zuse, created the first functional computer in his parents living room. -
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. -
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 became known as the domain name) -
The begining 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). -
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The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sol by 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 words, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
Sound was Added into the computer systems
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The only sounds originally coming from a computer was from the power source of the computer and little beeps for the simple computer games. -
Laptops were invented and sold
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The first laptop was created by Adam Osborne and was a huge success in sales. It had over $1,500 or programs. -
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 MacKenzie. -
Mouse was Invented a failure
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The first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart. Unfortunately, it was a failure on the Macintosh 128k but was later a success made on the Apple Lisa Computer. -
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, bases on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards of HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
First Web Page created
It 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. -
Video cams are Created
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The first web cam for sale was on Macintosh computers and were used to record or take pictures on the computer and was used for a variety of different communication purposes. -
Social Media becomes reality
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Six Degrees was the first recognizable social media site.Users could make a profile picture and add friends to their profile. -
Google search engine is created
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Google is registered as a domain to search infinite amounts of information on the Web.
