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Launched Sputnik
Manmade satelliteThe Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit. -
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. -
Aparent network
Aparent network
An Arpanet network was established between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970. -
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) -
Project Gutenberg
Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg, is a global effort to make books and documents in the public domain available electronically–for free–in a variety of eBook and electronic formats. -
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). -
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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. -
First spam email
The first spam email was sent in 1978 over ARPNET by a guy named Gary Thuerk. He was selling computers. -
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. -
AOL created
America Online It was founded as Quantum Computer Services, and it was an online services company by Jim Kimsey from the remnants of Control Video Corporation. -
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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.
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. -
The term "surfing"
The term “surfing” the internet was coined in 1992 by an upstate New York librarian Jean Armour Polly, aka “Net Mom.” -
Amazon Created
Amazon founded Jeff Bezos incorporated the company and it is the world's largest internet company. -
Facebook
Invention of Facebook It was founded by Zac Zuckerberg. It was initially limited to the founders to Harvard Students only -
First Tweet
The first tweet was sent on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey -
The first YouTube video
It’s called “Me at the zoo,” and features Jawed Karim, one of the founders, at the San Diego Zoo.
