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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 is 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 is 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 Haynes 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- 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 created
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 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. -
Wi-Fi is born
WiFi is a wireless standard for connecting to a router from your device. It allows for internet connection.
https://www.flashrouters.com/blog/2015/08/07/what-is-wi-fi-router-wireless-router-faq/ -
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 is 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. -
Yahoo is created
Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website called ‘ Jerry’s guide to the World Wide Web’ which was a directory that listed most of the websites listed on the internet. It had sub categories under which users could find helpful sites they were looking for. They then renamed this site as ‘Yahoo.com’.
https://successstory.com/companies/yahoo-inc -
Internet Explorer is released
One of the most popular web browsers that debuted with windows 95.
https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2013/08/visual-history-internet-explorer -
Hotmail is introduced
Founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, Hotmail is one of the world’s first free web-based email service where users can access it from a web browser anywhere in the world.
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PayPal is launched
A way of paying online securely otherwise known as a digital wallet.
https://www.pymnts.com/in-depth/2015/throwback-thursday-paypals-biggest-days-in-history/ -
Google is founded
Working from their dorm rooms, Larry Page and Sergey Brin build a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after this search engine was named Google.
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Wikipedia is introduced
Founded by Jimmy Wales with Larry Sanger, it is a free online encyclopedia.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wikipedia -
Facebook is launched
Mark Zuckerberg and fellow students at Harvard founded a social networking website that profiles people . Which is now known as Facebook .
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YouTube is created
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karmim came up with the idea of creating a website where you can share videos.
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The first iPhone is announced
Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone at the Macworld convention that would later be released on June 29,2007.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/apples-iphone-definitive-history-pictures/
