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Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPAFound a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA Connect for the First Time
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An Arpanet Network was Established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN in 1970 was created -
Email Was Developed
EmailDeveloped by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate username from computer name -
The Beginning of TCP/IP
A propposal was published to link Arpa-related networks together into a so-called "inter-work", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP). -
Email Popularity
Email PopularityPresidential candidate Jimmy Carter and competitor Walter Mondale use email in campaigns.
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The first Persoal Modem is Invented
First Personal ModemThe modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is Born
Spam is BornThe first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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The Earliest Form of Multiplayer Games was Debuted
GamingThe 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. -
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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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Virus
VirusA virus called the 'Internet Worm' temporarily shuts down about 10% of internet services around the world. -
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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 Webpage Created
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. -
Mosaic Development
Development of MosaicMosaic is created by Marc Andresson. It becomes the dominant navigating system for the internet, which now accounts for only 1% of all Internet traffic. -
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Statistics
StatisticsApproximately 45 million people are using the Internet. 43.2 million (44%) U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online. -
Napster
Creation of NapsterShawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet. -
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