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Advanced Research Projects Agency is created
Found a way that compuers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA conneted 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 in 1970 was created -
Emial was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the desion to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer 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 -
The first perosnal 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 email message was sent to 600 california arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The percursor to world of warcraft and second life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD. MUDS were entirley text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat -
The first emoticon
The emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the first emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using (: after a joke rather than the origanal :) proposed my Mackenize -
The domain name system was created
The first domian name server was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP adress 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 standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLS -
First web page was 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 emial was, its purpose was to explain what the world wide web was -
Facebook
FacebookMark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. A keen computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Coursematch, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where you could rate people's attractiveness. -
World of war craft
World of WarcraftA massive online role playing game created about eleven year ago -
Twitter
TwiitterTwitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco. -
Oovoo
OovooOovoo is a video chat app used for friends, family, and even randoms to talk to one and other -
Tumblr
TumblrTumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. -
Instagram
InstagramJust after midnight on October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom signed into his Apple App Store control panel. "Here we go," he thought. With a click, Instagram, the photo-sharing app he'd created with Mike Krieger, was open to the world. -
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Clash of Clans
Clash of ClansClash of clans, one of this top progessign games is a very popular iphone game -
Flappy Bird
Flappy BirdOne of the most addicting and frusterating games of the past, the creator was pressured to take it off the app store due to death threats -
Agar.io
Agar.ioAgar.io is a very popular a game that became a big this year and his one if the top rated games of the year
