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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. -
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
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
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest internet company, based on revenue and number of employees -
Craigslist
CraigslistCraigslist is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums. -
Yahoo
Yahoo\
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. -
Ebay
Ebay
eBay Inc., is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer sales services via Internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. -
Google
Google
Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords -
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. In 2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million viewers. -
Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. -
Youtube
Youtube
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006. -
Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. -
Bing
Bing
Bing is a search engine created and operated by Microsoft, replacing its former Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the search engine in May 2009. Bing was fully operational in June 2009.
