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ARPA was 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
[ Stanford and UCLA computers worked. ](The first hosts on what would one daybecome 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
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Thebeginning 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 was 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
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: 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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The first search engine
Archie the first known search engine has made its place in history with the name of Archie -
First web page created 1991
brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
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When Yahoo was created
yahooYahoo is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services -
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When was google invented?
Google creationGoogle Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software -
When facebook was created
facebookFacebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004 -
When Gmail was Created
gmailGoogle's email breakthrough was almost three years in the making. But it wasn't a given that it would reach the public at all. -
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When Vine was created
VineVine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six second-long looping video clips
