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1962- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of
nuclear attack. -
October 29, 1969, computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day
become the Internet -
1970: 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. -
1971-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) -
1974- 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). -
1977- 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 -
1978- Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
1979- 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. -
1982- 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 -
1984: 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. -
1990: 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. -
1991: First web page created
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. -
espn was created
espn was createdThe television station/website that covers all sports internationally was created. -
yahoo was created.
yahoo was createdYahoo is A well known search engine. People are also updated on the news by yahoo. -
Amazon was created
amazon was createdJuly 5, 1994 Amazon is a website that originally started off selling books online, but now they sell just about everything. -
google was created
google was createdLarry Page and Sergey Brin created this search engine which is currently being used world wide. -
Wkipedia was created
Wikipedia was createdA well known encyclopedia was created by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. -
youtube was created
youtube was createdA Globaly known website that people post all kinds of videos to was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim -
twitter was created
twitter was createdtwitter was createdtwitter was createdOne of the most popular social media websites was created by Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone. -
Soundcloud was created
Soundclound was createdOn soundcloud you can search whatever music you want, and make playlists. The app is free but there is a small amount of ads. -
Jack Threads was created
jackthreads was createdA well known online clothing store was created. This store sells hip,new clothes for a reasonable price. -
instagram was created
Instagram was createdInstagram, one of the biggest social media websites was created by Kevin Systrom. -
Facebook was created
Facebook was created One of the most popular social media websites was created. You can update your friends on what you are doing
