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1962 Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
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1969 Computer at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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1970 An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard,MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message processor"computers use to connect to the network in 1970 was created -
1974 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) -
1977 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 -
1978 Spam is born
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1979 MUD The earliest form of multiplier 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 -
1982 The first emoticon
The first emoticon was used while may 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 -
1984 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 east-to-remember domain name and then convert it to the IP addresses automatically. -
1990 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 World Wide Web was. -
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2000 Pandora was created
Made by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft and Tim Westergren. Plays all kinds of music depending on what artist or genre you pick.
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2004 Facebook was invented
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Google and yahoo offered to buy the company in 2006 but they were declined
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2005 youTube was created
YouTube was created by 3 former Paypal employees and was later bought by Google.
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2006 Spotify was created
Spotify was created in 2006. Spotify is a great way to play any kind of music. It is a swedish music service. Created by Martin Lorentzon and Daniel Ek
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2006 Twitter was created
Twitter was created by 4 people Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. Created to send short 140 character message called tweets.
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2010 GroupMe was created
Made group chats easier than texting in chats with Galaxy and Iphones. Created by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci
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2010 Instagram was created
After midnight on October 6 the app Instagram was available to the public. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger
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2011 Snap chat was created
Snap chat was created By Evan Spiegel. Idea came from a friend who sent a photo he shouldn't of. Started as a demo and a site. Then changed to an app.
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2013 vine was created
Vine was made by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll. Made so you could share small short funny videos.
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1971 Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name form the computer name (Which later on became the domain name)
