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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of a 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 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
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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
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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. -
Quantom Computer Services
QCSQuantum Computer Services, which later changes its name to America Online, debuts. It offers email, electronic bulletin boards, news, and other information -
First Router
First Router10,000 hosts on the Internet, first Cisco routershipped, 25 million PCs sold in US. -
First Computer Virus
First Virus
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. -
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. -
Yahoo!
Yahoo!Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more. -
Invention of Napster
NapsterCollege student Shawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet. -
Wikipedia
WikipediaWikipedia Launches. Today it is used by many people to find information about anything they type in. Some facts are not always true. -
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Internet Expanding Greatly
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Rise Of Google
The Best Search Engine
Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand," and also is the most visited Web site. -
Social Media
Social MediaTwitter and Facebook are the primary means of communication for the Middle East revolts.
