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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. -
First Virus
First VirusIt is generally accepted that the first was a virus called the Creeper, which infected Arpanet in 1971. -
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
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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
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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 Wo -
First Webcam
First WebcamThe first webcam began operating in 1991, the same year as Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, and had its origins in an even more important topic in computer science: the flow of caffeine around a research group. -
First picture uploaded to the Internet
According to ABC News, I.T. developer Silvano de Gennaro took the photo backstage at a music festival, edited it using the first version of Adobe Photoshop and saved the file as a GIF on his Macintosh. -
First Blog
First BlogThe first blogger may never be identified for sure, but the most likely candidate is American freelance journalist Justin Hall, who began blogging (not that the term then existed) in 1994 with a website called Justin's Links From The Underground. -
First Ebay sale
First ebay slaeThe first item to change hands at auction was a broken laser pointer offered by Omidyar himself, finally purchased for $14.83. -
Google is created
History of GoogleLarry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university. -
Safri comes out
Mac ObserverSteve Jobs announced that Appleis Safari Web browser is now officially version 1.0, completing the "wildly successful" beta program. According to Apple, the Safari beta was downloaded nearly 5 million times since it was announced on January 7th, 2003. From now on, all newly introduced Macintosh computers will include Safari as the default browser. -
First wikipidia entry
First wikipidiaIt was not until 2004, when the collaborative wiki software was utilised, that Wikipedia was unleashed. -
First youtube video
First youtube videoThe first video on the site was posted on 23 April 2005, and remains there today. "Me at the zoo" is a man called Karim's 18-second long report from the elephant enclosure at San Diego zoo. -
Twitter is publsihed
History of TwitterThe project work began on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 12:50 PM (PST): "just setting up my twttr". The prototype for twitter was tested as an internal service for Odeo employees but later launched publically in July 2006.
