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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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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 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. -
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 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. -
Espn website was created
Espn
This website lets you know everything about sports, from football to golf this has every sport headline and statistic you would want -
Amazon was found
Amazon
This website started out as a bookstore, but soon grew to be like an online store where you can find alomost anythingyou want to buy -
Yahoo was made
yahoo
This is a website where you can look at the weather, look at mail, and look at other websites with it's searchbar, it is like google, and is also used by millions everyday. -
Ebay was made
Ebay
A website like amazon that became very popular by seling products online and delivering them to your door, like an online store -
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Wikipedia was created
Wikipedia
A website that is like an encyclopedia that gives you information on anything you want, anyone can write a biography about someone or something on wikipedia -
Facebook was created
Facebook
A social media network that was very popular that let you connect with friends who also had facebook -
Youtube was first created
Youtube
This is a video-sharing website that is used by many people every day. -
twitter was made
twitter a social media network that let you "tweet" or share comments with your friends and other on the social media website -
Instagram was created
[Instagram](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram)
This is a social media website tha over 750,000,000 people use. This lets you share pictures with your friends and other users online.
