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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 Creation of Apple
Apple begin when Steve Jobs, and two other friends by the names of Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne had an idea on their minds. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked at a gaming company called Atari. The three men united the Apple computer on April 1st, 1976.The first Apple computer was hand-built by the co-founder Steve Wozniak.Apple Link -
The first Personal Computer Modern 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. -
Worldwide 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
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 Creation of Yahoo!
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated in March 2,1995. Yahoo is a multi-national technology search engine company. Yahoo's headquarters are located in Suunyvale, Califlornia where it was founded. Yahoo Link -
The creation of Google
The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. Google was released on September 4, 1998 and is still used today and now has its own search, online advertising technologies and its own cloud on the internet. Google Link -
The Founding of Pandora Radio
Since Pandora started back in 2000,it has been hard to work on the Music Genome Project. It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Pandora's mission is to play the music that you love. -
Creation of Facebook
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg when he was a sophomore in college at Harvard University. Facebook was launched on February 4th, 2004 it was called "thefacebook.com" back when it was first originated. The website was an instant hit and is now visited by over 400 million people a month. Facebook Link -
The Creation of Youtube
YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim who were co-workers at PayPal. The co-workers created you tube to be like a Flickr- style sharing video site in February 2005. Today more video are uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than all three U.S. television networks have created in 60 years. YouTube Link -
What is Twitter?
Twitter was founded on March 21st, 2006 by Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone. Twitter is an online social networking service that lets users send and write messages on the networks home page. Users can also post photos with descriptions on them so people can see them. Twitter Link -
The Creation of Instagram
Instagram is a fun and easy way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures.Instagram was created to solve simple problems of sharing photos with friends and computers taking forever to upload photos. Instagram Link -
The Founding of Pinterest
Pinterest is the world’s catalog of ideas. The mission is to help people discover the things they love, and inspire them to go do those things in their daily lives. Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra co-founded Pinterest back in March 2010. Since then, they helped millions of people around the world find recipes, parenting hacks, style inspiration and other ideas to try. Pinterest Link -
The Beginning of Snapchat to Now
Snapchat was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown when they were in college at Stanford University. Back in the summer of 2011, Snapchat was created but back then they called it Pictaboo. By fall of 2011, they changed the app name to Snapchat. Today, Snapchat has so many new and different features that you can use. Snapchat is now a 50 million dollar company. Snapchat Link
