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Timespan of the Internet So Far
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ARPA is Created
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 firsts hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
An Arpanet network was established
Btwn 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)
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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)
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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- earliest miltiplayer game- 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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The first emoticon by Scott Fahlman -
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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WWW. protocals finished
The code for the World Wide Web was writtren by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his propsal from the year before, along with the standards for TML, HTTP, and, URLs. -
First Web Page
brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. -
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Invention of Facebook
Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg -
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Amazing Phil's youtube started
LinkPhil Lester's youtube chanel, AmazingPhil began on Feburary 7th 2006 -
Creation of twitter
Twitter was put online in July, 2006 by Biz Stone, Jack Williams, Evan Dorsey, and Noah Glass -
Danisnotonfire's youtube channel was created
Meme-->Dan Howell's famous youtube account, Danisnotonfire began -
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First Youtube April Fools Prank
April FoolsThe Youtube staff changed all of the main links on the page to Rick Astley's music video "Never Gonna Give You Up" and Its has become a tradition on April Fool's to prank the viewers somehow -
Pintrest Launched
Pintrest Pintrest was launched in March 2010 by Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra.
