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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. -
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. -
The very first spam email was sent
It was sent when DEC released a new computer and operating system, and an innovative DEC marketeer decided to send a mass email to 600 users and administrators of the ARPANET (the precursor of the Internet). The reaction of the recipients was much the same fury as users today. It wasn’t until later though that the term “spam” would be born. view link -
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 :-)
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 1991 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. -
First webcam was created at the University Of Cambridge
It was created to monitor the Trojan coffee pot. A live 128×128 grayscale picture of the state of the coffee pot was provided as the video feed. view link -
The first ever banner ad invaded the Internet
it was just as bad as today. The ad was part of AT&Ts “you will” campaign, and was placed on the HotWired homepage. view link -
the first music file-sharing service Napster was created
It would go live, and change the way the Internet was used forever. view link -
Google was founded on September 4, 1998.
Earliest known use on an American television show was in October 2002 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The transitive verb, “to google” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006. view link -
The website youtube was activated
It was created on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. view link -
The first YouTube video to be uploaded
It was “Meet At Zoo” and uploaded at 8:27 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, 2005 by Jawed Karim. view link -
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There is no country in the world that cannot access the internet
With satellite based internet now available, they can always access the internet although Governments in certain countries still continue to severely restrict its use. In North Korea only Government officials and named officers have access to the net and China is famous for restricting its public’s access to certain sites. view link -
There are 7 people in the world who hold the “key to the internet.”
If in the event of a major catastrophe the internet is shut down these key holders will together be able to reboot an integral part of the system. view link
