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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack.
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they were using using packet-switching technology.
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BBN wins ARPANET contract.
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The first hosts on what would one day become the Internet.
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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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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)
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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.
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The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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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.
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two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."
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Amazon.com, Craigslist and eBay go live. The original NSFNET backbone is decommissioned as the Internet’s transformation to a commercial enterprise is largely completed.
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founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a company that sends users DVDs by mail.
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this is thanks to a settlement with the Justice Department.
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It changed the way users engage with the Internet.
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Peer-to-peer file sharing becomes a reality as Napster arrives on the Internet, much to the displeasure of the music industry.
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It ruled that it must find a way to stop users from sharing copyrighted material before it can go back online
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the era of social networking begins, Mozilla unveils the Mozilla Firefox browser.
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