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Advanced Research Projects Agency (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 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 in so-called "inter-work", which would have no central control and 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, combing elements of role playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The First Emoticon
The first emoticon, while many people credit Kevin Mackenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman 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 for human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS 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 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. -
Online Shopping Just Got Easier With Amazon
In 1994 Amazon was created by Jeff Bezos. Amazon was originally called Cadabra and Bezos quit his job to make it happen. Amazon was stared as an online book store.
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Ebay is Launched
Ebay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. Ebay brought forth a different way to shop online, it also gave people a chance to sell things online as well.
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Creation of Google
After Larry Page and Sergey Brin had collaborated on a search engine called BackRub they thought they may have an idea. Almost a year later google is registered as a domain on the internet. Google, a play on the word "googol", meaning a number with 100 zeros, represents their attempt to organize the seemingly infinite information of the web.
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Wikipedia Changes the Lives of Students Everywhere
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger saved students everywhere by launching the worlds greatest information source, Wikipedia. Wikipedia was made to be an online encyclopedia and hasn't changed since it's loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia -
MySpace is Created
After being on a website called eUniverse, several people saw the benefits of the social networking. They took it upon themselves and created their own website "My-Space". Within days the website took off.
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Launch of "The Facebook"
At age 23 a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, founded Facebook. had started social networking services before, but nothing took off. Developing the software himself he launched Facebook which changed the internet forever.
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YouTube is Brought to the Internet
YouTube was created by 3 PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube is one of the most relevant sites on the internet and has allowed many people to make money doing what they love.
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Twitter comes Online
Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass made the internet a more fun and interesting place the day they launched twitter. By 2012, more than 100 million users were on Twitter posting 340 million tweets a day.
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Instagram is Launched
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger gave the world a way to share our lives through photos. Their server gained popularity extremely rapidly and had over 100 million users in 2 years.
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SnapChat Provides a New Way to Communicate
Snapchat was launched and created by a group of three guys named Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. They provided a different way to communicate online through pictures and have progressed their business by making snapchat another way to receive daily news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat
