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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). -
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. -
Online shopping is invented.
Online Shopping
Online shopping is created by Michael Aldrich, an english entrepreneur who used a system called "videotex" to sell, set up and maintain many different online shopping systems. -
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. -
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.
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 is founded.
Yahoo
Yahoo, a search engine used by many people today, was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo. -
WebTV networks are founded.
WebTV
WebTV is founded by Steve Perlam. This allowed people to browse web pages on a TV using a hand-held control rather then a monitor. -
Ebay is created.
Ebay
Ebay is created as a means of online shopping in which people bid for their desired products or directly buy them. -
Google was created.
Google
Google, a search-engine used world-wide, was made by two Stanford students as a research project. By the end of 1998, google had over 60 million various pages for people to view. -
Wikipedia is created.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is launched for the first time by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. This website allows people to search thousands of topics to get research. -
The first public beta version of Skype is released.
Skype
Skype is created allowing people to talk to and see others through video-cameras. Users may do this today via computers, tablets, and mobel devices that use the internet. -
Facebook was created.
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. It is a social networking service that allows people to post pictures and comments about their daily lives. -
YouTube was created.
YouTube
Three former PayPal employees created YouTube to be used to share and view videos. -
Twitter is created.
Twitter
The first twitter message was posted at 9:50PM by Jack Dorsey and would eventually lead to one of the most famous social media sites used today.
