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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created
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first computer game created
spacewarAlthough there are many other earlier examples of computer games, most consider the first true computer game or digital game to be "Spacewar!". This game was programmed by Steve Russell and first released in February 1962. The game ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer, and consisted of two spaceships that maneuvered around a star that pulled at the ships with its gravity. The objective of the game was to avoid colliding with the star while trying to shoot the other ship with missiles. The player co -
computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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Email was first developed-
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separatethe user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
First international connections to the ARPANET
netvalleyUniversity College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) -
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). -
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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
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first spam message received
spamHowever, the actual first documented commercial spam message was for a new model of Digital Equipment Corporation computers and was sent on ARPANET to 393 recipients by Gary Thuerk in 1978.
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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
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first laptop invented
laptopDesigned in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen. -
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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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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first government run website
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first social networking site created
sixdegreesthe first recognizable social network site launched in 1997. SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists. -
wifi created
wifiVic Hayes has been called the "father of Wi-Fi" because he chaired the IEEE committee that created the 802.11 standard in 1997. Before the public even heard of WiFi, Vic Hayes established the standards that would make WiFi feasible. -
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facebook joined the internet
mashable.comIn August 2005, thefacebook was officially called Facebook and the domain facebook.com was purchased for a reported $200,000.
