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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 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 creation of Apple
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created the first Apple computer in 1976 but Apple didn't really launch until 1977 http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1873486_1873491_1873530,00.html -
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 my 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 essay-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address. -
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 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. -
Amazon was first created
Though his company was first founded by his parents Jeffrey P. Bezos went from having his parents fund his creation to using $61 Billion he gets from his creation today.
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Google was created
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started google in hopes of organizing the large amount of information on the web. https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ -
Ebay was created
Pierre Omidyar created ebay in his living room he wanted a marketplace to sell goods and services for individuals on the internet. He got a team of people with 20 years experience to help built a "strong vision" for the company.
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Facebook first came out
19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, then called thefacebook.com, in February 4, 2004. started out as something small turned into something that 400 million people use a month
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Youtube came out
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim first created youtube as a way to share videos with each other but then became millionaires when they sold Youtube to Google 1.65 billion dollars'
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the creation of Twitter
Twitter was originally created in March of 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass but didn't launch until later that year. In 2012 more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day
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The creation of Uber
Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp ha toble getting a cab so they came up with the idea if you tap a button on your phone, a ride shows up. What started a way to get a rid turned into transportation for a sandwich or a package to yor house https://www.uber.com/our-story/ -
Instagram was launched
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger created Instagram and with-in the first two months of it being out already had 1 million users and the number has grown a whole lot since then
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Snapchat was created
Evan Spiegel,Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown created snapchat as a way to send pictures that disappear after a certain amount of time. They came up with the idea after Reggie said he wished a picture he shouldn't have sent would disappear
http://www.speeli.com/articles/view/How-snapchat-started
