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Advanced research projects agency is created
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Computers at Stanford 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" computer used 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 computers hobbyists. -
The spam was born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 california Arpanet users by Gray Thuerk. -
MUD-The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of War 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 emoction in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using ;-) after a joke, rather than an original -) proposed by MacKenzie. -
The domain name system was created
The first domain Name Servers was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP adress automatically. -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Wed 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. -
Google was going to be sold.
In 1999, the founders of Google tried to sell it to Excite for 1 million but Excite turned it down. source -
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Snap chat original name
Snapchat originally was called Picaboo but the Spiegels changed the name while creaying the app in his living room.
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Instagram acquired by Fackbook.
Instagram was acquired by Facebook for about 1 billion dollars in cash and stock.
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Record breaking vines
The day of the Boston Marathon bombing a record breaking 19,667 vines were created.
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Apple profit
In 2014 apple profit was about 39.5 billion dollars which is enough to buy snapchat and airbnb with a few billion to spear.
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