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Advanced Research Projects Agency 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. -
1971-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
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First Laptop
The first laptop called the Osborne 1 with no battery and a 5 inch screen this monster wieghed about 25 pounds -
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 released
Microsoft word is a word processor originally named Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. -
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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First Commputer Virus was Detected
The first computer virus was detected and called the Brain. The Brain started by infecting floppy discs first, the virus is only a few kilobutes in size -
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 was Created
In 1994 Amazon was created and is now the largest internet based retailer in the US. Amazon started as an online book seller but diversified to sell dvds and CDs -
Google was created
On this date google became a website. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros -
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Steam is created
Steam is a digital market place for PC games run by Valve and is one of the biggest digital distributors of PC games today. -
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Youtube Acquisition
Google bought Youtube for $1.65 billion dollars and was Google's second largest acquisition -
Bing was created
Bing was a search engine created by Microsoft originally called Live Search or Windows Live Search.
