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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
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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
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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). -
Microsoft Founded
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft which is a company that made computers and computer software -
Apple Founded
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak starta computer company that they name apple -
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
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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. -
First Portable Computer
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This portable computer was designed for Grid Systems Corporation. It was one fifth the weight of any model similair in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's -
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
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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
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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. -
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First Internet Phone
The AT&T PocketNet Phone was the first phone thatb allowed you to go on thee internet. It was very limited on which websites you could go on. -
Google is created
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A website that is a play off the math term googol is published and is used as a search engine -
The First USB Flash Drive
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The flash dirve was invented by Dov Moran. He worked for M-Systems and that is where it was made. -
Facebook Created
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At the age of 23, Mark Zuckerberg created a social media site originally called "The Facebook" wher you could post statuses about yourself and see what others were doing. -
Youtube Comes to the Internet
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A website called youtube comes to the internet that allowed people to post videos for any reason. -
Twitter goes Online
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In 2006, a social media site called twitter was launched. The site allowed users to post messages of 160 charaacters or less called tweets. -
