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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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Inception of Unix
Unix A multitasking, multiuser computer operating system. Developed at AT&T's Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. -
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 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 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. -
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
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. -
Internet Explorer Created
Internet Explorer Created A series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. -
Facebook Created
Facebook Created Founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students. Users can create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. -
Youtube Created
When It was Created and Who Created It Invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Users can upload and share video clips and YouTube enables video embedding that allows YouTube videos to be placed on non-YouTube pages. -
Twitter Created
Twitter Created Social networking site that allows users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". -
Tumblr Created
Tumblr Created Bloggin platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. Enables users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. -
Google Drive Created
Google Drive An online file storage provided by Google that enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. -
