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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). -
Apple is Born
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. The company was orignally Apple computer Inc. but then was originated to just Apple. -
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 from 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. -
When ESPN was founded
ESPN - In mid-1978, faced with unemployment after being fired from his job as Communications Director for the New England Whalers, Bill Rasmussen founded .Time, being conservative, persuaing, and a little of good luck gave America its first 24-hour sports network in 1979. Once fianlly seen upon sports fans, ESPN’s impact forever changed the way we watch television -
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. -
Aol was Created
Aol a media based websttie that invests, grows, in brands and new websites. Aol gives you news updates and also stories that you would find on a local news station except it is globally. -
World Wide Web protocols finsihed
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. -
Yahoo was Created
Yahoo is a site where you can make an email account, find out about global or local news, need answers, and want to play games. -
Ask is Created
Ask is a website where you can ask questions. It is sort of like Yahoo qith questions, but the answers you'll recieve on Ask is more general and mroe accurate. You could also create a profile an asnwer questions yourself. -
When Wikipedia was founded
Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Those who can access the site can edit most of its articles -
Creation of Youtube
Youtube is a website where you can share video of almost anything in the world you want to know about, need tips about, or just plain want to see. -
Bing is Discovered
Bing is another search engine that microsoft has yet created. Bing is almost identiacal to google, but how they search and what they search is different and you wont be left with the same answers. -
Pinterest is Founded
Pinterest is a website where it acts like a media based platform. You can share pictures and save, share, or "pin" pitcures. -
Ask.fm is created
Ask.fm is a website where you create a profile and can either ask questions or get asked questions or both! Ask.fm is a social media based website/app that allows people from aroundt eh world to ask you questions. you can either allow them to anonymously ask you questions or you could change it around so they can't.
