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Advanced Research Project Agency
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
Found a way that computers can talk to eachother in case of a nuclear attack -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interface message precessor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created. -
Email was first developed
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The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal wa published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network"wich would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol(whick eventually became TCP/IP). -
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft made the interface look nicer making more people want to use it and making it easier to use overall. -
The First Personal Computer Modum is Invented
The modum 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 precursor to World of Warctaft and Second Life was developed in 1879, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based vitual 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 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. -
Battle.net
Battle.net Wiki
This website had been around for longer than I have been alive and has been making some great games since the beginning -
Netflix
Netflix facts
Netflix is a website you go on to watch movies but you have to pay a monthly fee to access their huge collection of movies. -
Google
Google Facts
Google is the best web browser ever created and it makes it easy to find things from all around the internet. -
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Skype was created
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Youtube
Youtube facts
This is an amazing website where you can make and watch vidios that other people make. -
Twitter
Twitter facts
This is a website where you can conversate with people through short 140 character messages -
League of Legends
League of Legends timelineLeague of Legends timeline
League of Legends is a free to play strategy game. -
Cookie Clicker
Cookie clicker history
This is an online browser game where you try to see how many cookies you can make per second. -
Steam
Steam Facts
Steam is a website that makes it easy to see all of your games in one place and buy new games.
