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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 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). -
Apple.Inc was founded
Apple
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company. Apple designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Their first -
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 was created
Online Shopping
Also known as E-Shopping or E-tail. The inventor of Online shopping is Michael Aldrich, an English entrepreneur. It allows costumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet. -
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. -
Amazon was founded
Amazon.comAmazon.com is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States and is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company. -
ebay was borne
Ebay
was founded by Pierre Omidyaris and is an e-commerce company that provides consumer to consumer & business to consumer sales services through the Internet. It is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. . -
Netfix. Inc is founded
Netflix
An Internet streaming media available to viewers-for a price of $7.99-in Australia, New Zealand, South and North America, Japan, and (parts of) Europe. -
First Social Media Site
SixDegreeswas a social network website that lasted from 1997-2001. llowed users to list(both on the site and externally) friends, family members and acquaintances, send messages, post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and was able to see their connection to any other user on the site. SixDegrees had around 100 employees and 3,500,000 fully registered members. It was bought by YouthStream Media Networks in 1999 for $125 million. -
Myspace was created
Myspace
is a social networking site that has interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.
Myspace was bought by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005-2008 Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006, surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States. -
Xbox Live was invented
Xbox
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media service created and owned by Microsoft. Xbox Live is available for both a free and subscription membership, known as Xbox Live Free and Xbox Live Gold. You can only play online games with the Xbox Live Gold Membership. -
Facebook was created
An online social network that was created by Mark Zuckerberg. -
YouTube
Youtube YouTube is a video-sharing website and was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Google bought YouTube in 2006 for
$1.65 billion.
