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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 the Harvard, MIT, and BBn (the company that created the "interface messenger processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 were created. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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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",
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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- The earliest form of multiplayer games were created
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 :-)
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 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 -
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
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ESPN's website was created
ESPN
ESPN's website was created. ESPN is a very popular sports news website and TV station. -
Yahoo! Geocities was created
Yahoo! Geocities
Yahoo! Geocities was one of the first social media sites uploaded on the web. -
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Easybib was created
Easybib
Easybib is a website that creates bibliographies for a website, book, etc. of your choosing. -
Wikipedia was created
Wikipedia
Wikipedia was created. Wikipedia is a very common website for researching. It has many articles and it considers itself an online encyclopedia. -
Facebook was created
Facebook
Facebook is a social media site. It was the most common social media site in 2009 and is still be used today.v -
Youtube was founded
Youtube
Youtube was created. Youtube is one of the most popular websites that show many videos. -
Instagram was created
Instagram
Instagram was invented. Instagram is a very popular social media site and in April of 2012 it had 100 million active users.
