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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 BNN (the company that created the "interface message professor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created -
email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who made the decision to use "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later became a domain name -
The begining of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpanet-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 was Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyist. -
Google.com was first registered as a domain
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California, Those men together created the google search engine we now have. The google.com was first registered as a domain on September 15th. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), went out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD-The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to the 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 :-)
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. -
Microsoft word was created
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft. Allows you to type and file documents. -
The domain name system was created
The first domain name severs (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 counter parts. DNS servers allowed internet users to type in an easy- to-remember domain name and then converted it into an IP address automatically. -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for 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. -
Microsoft PowerPoint created
Microsoft PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program currently developed by Microsoft, for use on both Microsoft and Apple Macintosh operating systems. -
First Web page was created 1991
brought some major innovations to the world of the internet. The first website was created and,much like the first email was, its purpose was, its purpose was to explain what Worldwide Web was. -
Ammazon first incorperated
Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of wasington. -
Six Degrees was created
The first Social Media webpage was created,Six Degrees, It allowed users to upload a profile and make friends. -
Youtube first activated as a website
The domain name www.youtube.com was activated and the website was developed over the subsequent months. -
First youtube video
The first YouTube video, titled me at the zoo shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded and can still be viewed on the site. -
Twitter was created
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages called "tweets". -
Pinterest was created
Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a photo sharing website. -
Google drive was created
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google.
