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Advanced Research Projects Agency
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 prosseser" computers used to connect the network) in 1970 was created -
E-Mail was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the desicion to use the "@" symbol to seperate the username from the computer name (which later on became the domain name -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Apra-like networks together into a so-called " inter-network", which would have no central control and would workaround a transmission control protocal ( which eventualy became TCP/IP) -
Microsoft is born
microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1975 -
Apple is created
Apple is created in a garage by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak -
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 -
MUD - The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to world of warcraftand 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 domain system was created
The first domain name servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made adresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its numerical IP adress counterparts. DNS servers allowed internet users to type in an easy to remember domain name and then converted it to the IP adress -
Wold Wide Web protocals finished
The code for the worled 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
Brought some major innovations to the world of 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. -
google is created
google was created as a privatly held company in 1998, then become public in 2004 -
Social Network Facebook was created
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerburg, and some of his collage room mates -
Youtube is created
The popular video website youtube was invented -
Twittwer is Created
The twitter creaters got the green light to release twitter to the public in 2006 -
the first iphone is launched
the first iphone, the 2g first generagion, was launched in 2007 -
Tumblr is created
tumblr was founded by David Karp and has 13 million blogs today -
Instagram is created
Instagram is realeased in october of 2010
