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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is acreated
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack -
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",
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Microsoft was founded
microsoftfounded by Bill Gates and Paul allen. Later followed by microsoft windows which everyone now uses -
first apple computer came out
applesteve jobs and steven wozinak invented the apple computer inside steve jobs basement -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented-
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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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
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ESPN.com was created
ESPNscott rasmussen founded ESPN. He wanted people to have access to only sports news. -
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
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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.
1990: World Wid -
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 created
amazonThey wanted to be the worlds most consumer-centric company. people could pick out what they wanted -
wikipedia was created
wikipediawikipedia was created as a side project of nupedia. it was created by James Whales, and Larry Sanger -
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Youtube is launched
youtubeYouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. they all met at paypal -
Twitter was created
twittercreated by jack dorsey, evan williams, biz stone, and Noah glass. service rapidly gained populariry -
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