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Advanced Research Projects Agency is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day
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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
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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 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.
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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 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 -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his
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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 -
Google
Google Google is one of the largest search engines in the world google also owns google plus. Which is social networking -
Linkedin the place for jobs
LinkedIn Linkedin Is a website for professional networking. For jobs and hiring -
Myspace is founded
Myspace Myspace was founded in 2003. It now currently has 1 million U.S unique vistors -
Skype is online
Skype Skype is a company that specialises in video chat. It was bought by microsoft. -
Steam is gaming ready
Steam Steam is a gaming download software. It was made first for windows the newest thing it goes on is mobile -
Facebook is made
Facebook Originally only avabile to Harvard students it soon expanded and became one of the most famous social media sites of its time -
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Youtube went live
Youtube Youtube is a video sharing website. Created in 2005 by 3 former pay pals employees it is now owned by google . It was bought by google in 2006 -
Twitter is born
Twitter was created in a full day of brainstorming for the company of odreo. An Undergraduate came up with the idea Twitter's history -
Tumblr is good to go
Tumblr Tumblr is a social media website that launched in 2007 . Yahoo bought it -
