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Advanced Research Projects Agency 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 decidion to use the @ symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name "which later on became the domain name" -
The begininng of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to line Arpa-like networks together into 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 War craft 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, interactice, 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 Fahlam 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
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World Wide Web protocals 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 -
The first wev page created in 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. -
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When netflix was created
Netflix was created A website where people can watch a variety of movies and tv shows when they want on a variety of devices -
Google was created
Google was createdgoogle is a search engine where you can find the information you need. -
wikipedia was created
wikipedia was createdWikipedia is a website where you can get information on a variety of topics -
Facebook was created
facebook was created Facebook is a social media network where people can share what is going on in their lives to their friends -
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Tumblr is created
Tumblr was created Used to share pictures and videos with others almost like a blog -
Pinterest was created
Pinterest was created Social media site where people can share personalized images or boards that describes their personality -
Instagram was created
instagram was createdInstagram was created Social media site where can people can share pictures with their friends or with the entire world -
