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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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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 created
ESPN is the most popular sports network and website in the world. ESPN is the holy Grail for anyone who loves sports giving you all the news, videos and etc.
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Yahoo
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Yahoo is pobaly the second thing people use behind Google.Yahoo -
Google was created
Google was created on September 4th, 1998 in Menlo Park, California. The founders were Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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Facebook was invented
Facebook was created by the famous Mark Zuckerberg. When Zuckerberg was a sophmore at Harvard that's when he created Facebook, but was always a computer expert even at age 12. Now, Facebook has been one of the biggest social media hit for about 6 years.
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Youtube was created
Youtube was created on February 14th, 2005 in San Mateo, California. The founders used to be three paypal employees there names were Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
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Twitter was invented
The current owner of Twitter is Jack Dorsey. Twitter is probably the most popular social media right now in the world. One fatc about Twitter is that you can only use 140 characters so people can't spam multiple messages in one tweet.
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iphone was invented
The famous Steve Jobs was the creator of the iphone. Today, the iphone is the most popular and most used phone in the world.
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Bing
Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.The founder of bing was by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Bing and Google are very popular and similar search engines.
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Instagram was developed
Instagram was created in October in 2010 but doesn't tell the exact day. Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Instagram got really popular the year 2012.
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Snapchat
Snapchat doesn't really tell the official date it was released, but it was somewhere in the year 2011. Snapchat has been taking off in the social media world and is extremely popular for teenagers.
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