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ARPA is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
Stanford and UCLA computers connect for 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 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. -
First WebCam is created
The first webcam was created to monitor a coffee pot. It was made at the Cambridge University Computer Science Department. The camera was finally switched off on August 22, 2001. Now, they are often used to live stream on Twitch.tv https://gizmodo.com/5993583/the-worlds-first-webcam-was-created-to-check-a-coffee-pot-remotely -
The Birth of Banner Ads and CPM Global Network Navigator
In 1993, was the first commercial website to sell a clickable ad. Eventually the became known as banner ads. GNN was basically an online information portal that consisted of a news center and it also acted as a product catalog. https://www.adpushup.com/blog/the-history-of-online-advertising/ -
Amazon.com Created
Amazon is a service where you order things online. After a couple of days, your order will be mailed to your house. You can order books, games, silverware, pretty much anything you can think of. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+did+amazon+start&rlz=1C1CHXU_enUS761US761&oq=when+did+amazo&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.47439j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 -
Garfield.com is created
Garfield.com is the official website for Garfield the cat. Garfield is my favorite meme so I had to include him. Garfield.com hosts Garfield News, Garfield Fun, and Garfield Activities.
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Google Doodles start
The Burning Man Festival symbol was the first Google Doodle to be made. It was a message made by the creators of Google saying that they weren't going to be working, as they were headed to the Burning Man Festival. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHXU_enUS761US761&q=when+did+google+doodles+start&oq=when+did+google+dood&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0.149318.154022.0.155742.13.12.1.0.0.0.105.854.11j1.12.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.13.857...0i67k1j0i13k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1.0.d8y_V8ovybU -
YouTube is created
YouTube, was created in 2005 as a video sharing website where people could upload almost anything they wanted. From comedy skits, to discussions on certain topics, you could make a video on it. Less than a year after YouTube was created, Google purchased the company. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+was+youtube+created&rlz=1C1CHXU_enUS761US761&oq=when+was+&aqs=chrome.2.69i59l3j69i57j0l2.3775j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 -
Balloon Boy Hoax
Internet Media sources mass reported an incident of Scientist/Inventor Richard Heene's son climbing into a weather balloon that had launched unexpectedly, and was flying away out of control. It turns out, Heene's son, Falcon was never actually in the balloon, and the whole thing was another internet hoax, and it is believed Richard Heene set the whole thing up in order to gain popularity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax -
The iPhone Massacre
The iPhone Massacre was when anonymous internet users made fake ads from Apple proposing that you could "charge your phone with the microwave" or "the iPhone is water proof now" when really, it was all fake. Hundreds of phones were reported to be broken. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1950751.1411558189!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/wave25n-4-web.jpg -
The Great Meme War of 2015
The Great Meme War refers to the internet based war conducted by supporters of numerous presidential candidates of both parties from June 2015 to November 2016. During this time period users of social media, mostly from Reddit and 4chan, conducted numerous "operations" to sway the public opinion of United States citizens. https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/The_Great_Meme_War -
One of Tay the Chatbot's last innocent Tweets.
Tay was a chatbot developed by Microsoft so they could show off how intelligent their AI was. Tay was supposed to be a representation of a 16 year old girl. However, she was transformed as internet users corrupted the AI with rude and controversial thoughts. After 16 hours, she was shut down. https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism/
