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First McDonalds opened
First McDonalds was openedThe first McDonalds was opened in Des Plaines, IL. This changed how people ate in America -
Advanced Research Projects Agency
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 BBM was created in 1970 -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the @ symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name -
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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" which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Denis Hayed and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists -
Spam is Born
The first uncolicited commercial email message, 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. 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 propesed using :-} after a joke, rather than the original -} proped 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 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. -
Amazon was created
[Amazon was created](Amazon.com, Inc)Amazon was created by an American Entrepenuer named Jeff Bezos. Amazon changed shopping online. Instead of going to multiple websites to buy things, people just go to one to buy everything they need -
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Verizon was founded
Verizon was founded Verizon was founded on June 30, 2000 because that is the date that Bell Atlantic Corporation broke off and split into different companies -
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Myspace was founded
Myspace was bought by News Corporation Myspace was bought by News Corporation in July of 2005 for $580 million. -
Twitter created
Creation of Twitter Twitter was created by Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone -
