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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 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). -
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. -
Usernet systems were conceived
Usernets were first conceived by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. These systems were in many ways the first social media programs, allowing users to post articles and news to "newsgroups". -
Six Degrees was launched
Six Degrees was first launched in 1979, and is considered the first modern social media site. Although it was bought in 2000, and shut down in 2001, it was once incredibly popular, boasting about 1 million users. -
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 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 in 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. -
First banner ad was put on a website
The first banner ad was used to promote 7 art museums. The add was created by Joe McCambley and was added to HotWired.com -
Amazon.com was Incorporated
Amazon was created byJeff Benzos in 1994, and was first launched a year later in 1995. Origionally Amazon sold only books, the first ones to be sold were Benzons' own, but the online retailer has since branched out to include everything from toys, to candles, to furniture. -
Google files for incorporation
Google was created by Standford college students Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. The search engine company filed for incorporation in California on September 4, 1998. Later in the month, they set up their workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage, and hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee. -
Wikipedia was launched
Wikipedia , an online encyclopedia, was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. -
Facebook was created
Facebook was origionally called "thefacebook.com" and was created byHarvard sophmore Mark Zuckerberg. -
Youtube was created
Currently,Youtube was created by 3 former Paypal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. youtube gets 80% of their views from other countries and can be navigated in 76 different languages. -
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