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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) 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. -
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 apple computer
Start of Apple Steve Wozniak and steve Jobs Released the Apple I computer which started the future for the Apple computers. It was thte first computer with a single circuit board. -
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 Fisrt Computer Virus
The First computer VirusThe Melissa virus set the tone for fast-moving viruses reaching about 250,000 computers. Its payload was mostly innocuous, however. Whenever the time of day matched the date — say, 5:20 on May 20. -
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
automatically. -
When ESPN Started
The Start of ESPNIn mid-1978, faced with unemployment after being fired from his job as Communications Director for the New England Whalers (now Carolina Hurricanes), Bill Rasmussen and his son, Scott Rasmussen, founded ESPN. Entrepreneurial daring, irrepressible enthusiasm and a dash of good luck it gave America. -
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. -
The Start of Google
Start of GoogleIt began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University.Page was naturally aware of the concept of ranking in academic publishing, and he theorized that the structure of the Web's graph would reveal not just who was linking to whom, but more critically, the importance of who linked to whom, based on various attributes of the site that was doing the linking. -
First Ebay
First Ebay CEO Meg Whitman — considered the most powerful woman in business; recently courted by Walt Disney to be its next CEO — says she agreed in 1997 to interview for eBay's top job. -
The Fisrt Iphone (the mobile internet)
The Start of IphonesThe original iPod was released in October 2001 after a year of development (meaning that the answer to the question "when was the iPod invented" is roughly 2000). -
Facebook, the Begining
The Start of FacebookFacebook, originally called The Facebook with the domain thefacebook.com, was officially launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Membership was originally restricted to those who attended Harvard College. In less than a month over half of the students had signed up. Over time, more universities and high schools were added. On September 26 2006, Facebook was officially opened for everyone over the age of -
The Start of Youtube
All about youtubeThe YouTube domain name was activated on 14 February 2005.It was founded by three former employees of PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The first video to ever be uploaded onto the site was titled Me at the zoo. It is a video of one of the founders of YouTube, Jawed Karim, at the San Diageo Zoo. It can still be found on the YouTube site and was upload on April 23, 2005. -
The First Cyber Monday
Cyber MondayNo longer just an afterthought to Black Friday, Cyber Monday has grown in importance in recent years. In 2006 it was only the 12th-biggest online spending day of the year. It's jumped in the rankings every year since, landing in the No. 1 spot last year for the first time, said Andrew Lipsman, vice president of industry analysis at market research firm ComScore Inc., which tracks online spending.
Cyber Monday sales topped $1 billion in 2010. -
When Twitter Sarted
The First TwitterTwitter was born about three years ago, when Jack, Biz, Noah, Crystal, Jeremy, Adam, TonyStubblebine, Ev, me (Dom), Rabble, RayReadyRay, Florian, TimRoberts, and Blaine orked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco. The company had just contributed a major chunk of code to Rails 1.0 and had just shipped Odeo Studio, but we were facing tremendous competition
