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Advanced Research Projects Agency 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 irst time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard,MIT,and BNN was created. -
Floppy disk
The floppy disk or diskette is a thin disk that stores memory for a computer used in the 1970s. -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson,who also made the decision to use the "@" symbole to seperate the user name from the computer name. -
The first computer printer was created
printersThe original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Alto Research center beginning in 1969 and completed in 1971 -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A propasal was published to link Arpa-like networks into so-called "inter-network", which would have no central controland would work around a transmission controle protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
The first Personal Cmputer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,and was introduced and intentially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message,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 and was called MUD(Multi User Dungeon).MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds,combining elements of role-playing games,interactive,fiction,and omline 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 first portable computer laptop was created
The first fully functional laptop portable computer(Gavilan computer) was created by Manny Fernandez -
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 automatically. -
Microsoft office was created
microsoft officeMicrosoft office is a series of desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems. -
World Wide Web protocols finished
the code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee,based on his proosal from the year before,along with the standards for HTML,HTTP,and URLs. -
Archie the first search engine
Archie was the first search engine and was an FTP site hosted of an index of downloadable directory listings. -
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First web page created
Brought some major innovations to the wold of the internet.The first web page was created and,much like the first email xplained what email was,its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Mobile phones and the internet
mobile phoneThe first mobile phone with internet connectivity was the Nokia 9000 communicator -
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Facebook was created
Facebook allows Facebook allows users to create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. -
Instagram was invented
Instagram is a social networking site that lets users take pictures and share them with other users.
