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Adcanced Reaseach Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to eachotherin 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 -
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 -
First ever Microsoft excel was released
Micrososft excel was madeIn 1985, the first ever version of micrsoft excel or micrsoft word was released. This program would only build over the next 30 years. -
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 -
Espn.com creation
espn.com releaseIn July of 1993, espn.com or its creation name ESPNet.SportsZone.com, was released to the public. This website would follow the show as well. -
Yahoo was born
Yahoo is createdInJanuary of 1994, another search tool known as Yahoo was created, and was used for emials, world information and political news. -
Ebay was born
Ebay was foundedOn this date, one of the most popular shopping websites was created and would only gain poularity after its hit start in 1995. -
Dictionary.com was created
[Dictionary.com founders and when it was created](file:///C:/Users/243119/Downloads/Internet_Timeline_Project%20(1).pdf)Dictionary's official website was created, also known as reference.com. This was the first of its kind and would be used for years to come -
Google was created
When google was foundedOn this date, the soon hit search engine google was created by Larry Paige and Sergey Brin -
Creation of Wikipedia
Wikipedia was madeWikipeadia, the famous information website was created for anyone to add info that may or may not of been true -
Answers.com was created
Answers.com was createdAnswers.com was created for people to ask any question they wanted, and anybody could resond and give them the answer they were looking for. -
Youtube was founded
Youtube was createdOn this date in 2005, the video and social media website know as Youtube was founded in San Mateo, CA. This website would grow hugely over the next 10 years, and still is today. -
Bing was created
Bing was createdOne of the most used search toold, Bing, was created on this date, giving Google its top competator
