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Military Uses first Computer
ENIACThe military uses the "ENIAC" which was the first computer that could mutitask. -
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 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
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The earliest 3D printer comes out
3D Printers!The earliest 3D printing technologies first became visible in the late 1980’s, at which time they were called Rapid Prototyping (RP) technologies -
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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Floppy disk comes out
Floppy disk!!
IBM introduced the 1.2 MB dual-sided floppy disk along with its AT model -
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. -
Ebay gets released.
Ebay comes out
Ebay was inteended to be used at a sales website, and it is used as one. -
Netflix comes out
NETFLIX
Netflix was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. and its now a big hit on the interwebs -
Google is founded
GOOGLE!
Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. -
Twitter is launched
Twitter is releasedIt was created for online social media, and it has been a big hit ever since. -
Windows 8 comes out
Windows 8!!
Windows 8 was released to the public and it had many new fetures that windows 7 lacked -
HTML5 came out.
HTML5 HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It was finalized, and published, on 28 October 2014 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This is the fifth revision of the HTML standard since the inception of the World Wide Web. -
Windows 10 comes out
Windows 10
Windows 10 launched globally on 29 July, with Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users, as well as Windows Insiders, all starting to receive their free upgrade to the new OS Read more: http://www.itpro.co.uk/operating-systems/23119/windows-10-release-date-and-specs-10#ixzz3oTDFRENe
