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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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First recorded idea of connected computers.
The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be made through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. Computer -
First commercially successful minicomputer.
DEC unveils the PDP-8, the first commercially successful minicomputer. Small enough to sit on a desktop, it sells for $18,000. Minicomputer -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day
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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
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First public demonstration of the ARPANET.
Larry Roberts and Bob Kahn decide that it is time for a public demonstration of the ARPANET. They chose to hold the demonstration in Washington, DC. <ahref='http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_70s.html' >ARPANETdeomonstration</a> -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network",
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First Apple computer made.
Apple's first computer was called the Apple I computer. The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer. <ahref='http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm' >FirstAppleComputer</a> -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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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
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Microsoft Office
Microsoft introduces earliest version of Office suite of productivity applications. Microsoft -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his
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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. -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer was released in 1995 and is one of the most popular browsers today. <ahref='http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp' >InternetExplorer</a> -
The term Internet
The FNC unanimously passed a resolution defining the term Internet. InternetHistory -
Netflix founded
The year Netflix was founded. 239,000 people signed up with Netflix in its first year. Netflix founded -
Facebook was created.
Facebook was created in January 2004. It was, at first, called thefacebook.com. Facebook history -
