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ARPA Created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack. -
Computers at Standford and UCLA connected for the first time
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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.
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Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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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",
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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
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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
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. -
First Photo Ever Put on Internet
First Photo Put on InternetFirst Internet Photo</a>This was the first picture ever put on the internet and it was a European band called the Les Horribles Cernettes. -
Amazon was first put online
Amazon was first put online Amazon, one of the most popular online shopping sites where you can buy things from their website and then they ship it right to your front door. -
Yahoo Created
Yahoo Created
Yohoo is a search engine that also gives you news while you are on their site -
Google Created
Google Created Google is a search engin where you can look up things on the internet and it will find them. -
Youtube Created
Youtube Created Youtube is a website where you can post videos and people can watch the videos onling. -
Facebook Was First Put Online
Facebook Was Put Online A social media network where you can post pictures and write about yourself and people can look at what your posting -
Google Chrome Created
Google Chrome Created Google chrome is a web search application that allows you to search google and save things like website favorites -
Minecraft Came Out
Minecraft came outThis is when minecraft first came out and it quickly became one of the most popular games in the world. It is an online game that lets you go around a block world and make it your own. -
Bing Created
Bing Created. Bing is a search engine that lets you find out news and search for information on the internet. -
Twitter Created
Twitter Created
Twitter is a social media online thing where you can post pictures about yourself and write what it is about.
