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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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The First Personal Computer Was Invented
Olivetti's Website The Programma 101 was the first commercial desktop personal computer, produced by the Italian company Olivetti and invented by the Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto, inventor of the magnetic card system. The project started in 1962. It was launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and volume production began in 1965. -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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An 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 on became the domain name) -
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 (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to 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. -
MultiUser Dungeon (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 worlds, combining
elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The first emoticon was used :-)
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. -
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, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
First Web Page Created
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. -
Nintendo's Website Launched
Nintendo's Website The successful Japanese gaming industry that created the "Nintendo Entertainment System" in 1985 launched their website to advertise their new upcoming game "Super Smash Bros." for their new console, the "Nintendo 64". -
Dell's Website Launched
Dell's Website Dell is a PC manufacturing business that have special branded PC's designed and built by them so they can sell pre-made models for people who are looking for less of a hassel to build a PC themselves. -
MySpace's Website Launched!
MySpace's Website MySpace is a social networking website that is the predecessor to Facebook today. -
Valve Inc.'s Website Went Online
Valve's Website Valve, the creators of the popular 3D gaming sensation at the time, Half-Life, launched their website on this day. The game's prestine graphics and advancements for the time funded them to start a full company and a website deticated to their games. -
NVIDIA's Website Launched
NVIDIA's Website NVIDIA are the creators of the high preformance Graphic Processing Units for 3D videogame computing. They launched their website so people could purchase their devices online instead of in stores. -
Google.com Launched!
Google.com The famous web browser Google had launched and to this day it is the most successful web browser of all time owning billions of dollers. -
Amazon.com's Website Launched!
Amazon's Website Amazon.com is a website where you can purchase anything you desire and it is shipped to you! -
Youtube's Launch Date!
Youtube's Website Youtube's soul purpose for being created was so people could upload and watch other peoples videos for entertainment and learning. -
Twitter's Website Launch
Twitter's Website The social network Twitter launched in the year 2006, it was the most used blogging website even to date.
