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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 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 first Creeper virus infects computers
Bob Thomas of IBM accidentally released the Creeper virus by trying to create a self-duplication program. This is a similar virus to the ones our computers can get today. https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24180/creeper-virus -
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). -
Microsoft is founded
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They have influenced how we use the internet today with Microsoft Edge, Word, etc. Bill Gates was the youngest billionaire in the world at the age of 31 and is the richest man in the world. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/microsoft-founded -
Apple was founded
Apple Computers Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. These two college dropouts started this business in a garage in hopes of creating a better, easier personal computer for consumers. They released the Apple ll short after the founding, which had many features unknown to computers then like color display.
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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 Warcraft 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, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
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 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 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 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 is founded
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos. This was the first major online shopping website and helped begin to shift all shopping to shopping. Amazon is now 43% of all online shopping. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/27/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-bill-gates -
The first dating website is introduced-Match.com/
match.com was the first of the endless dating wen=bsites i=on the internet. This allowed a new way for people to meet others and is now a big part of our society. The website has over 20 million accounts. http://www.businessinsider.com/match-gary-kremen-2011-12 -
Skype begins the video-chat craze
Skype was the created as "sky peer-to-peer" video chatting. This new application allowed face to face interaction over a computer or smartphone for people around the country. https://www.dsp.co.uk/history-of-skype/ -
Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook
Zuckerberg intended to Facebook as a "mixture of Google and Wikipedia" in other words a place you could learn about and meet people and things they do. Today more than 1 billion people are active on Facebook. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3 -
Google Maps was introduced to the internet
Google was and still is the top search engine used by consumers. By adding Google Maps to this was a stellar feature. It made GPS and paper maps all accessible on every smartphone or computer for easy access. It revolutionized all the existing virtual maps. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/08/google-maps-10-anniversary-iphone-android-street-view -
YouTube is released
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawd Karim started YouTube with a short 19 second video to create the website with now millions of videos at our fingertips. YouTube creates jobs and pays high rated YouTubers. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990787,00.html -
Netflix advances to streaming
Netflix introduces streaming all movies and shows online rather than ordering and shipping everything on a DVD. The company received 20 million new subscribers in just the first 3 years after the release. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/21/showbiz/gallery/netflix-history/index.html
