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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
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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",
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The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
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Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 CaliforniaArpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life wasdeveloped in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combiningelements 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 ofthe emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed byMacKenzie. -
The domain name system was created
The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name systemwas 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 addressautomatically. -
First Internet Virus was created
First Computer Virus
The first computer worm was released and it destoryed files and damaged systems. -
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. -
Instant Messaging is developed
instant messaging
With more people on the internet, instant messaging was born. -
Apple came out with it's website
First apple Website
The website was very basic unlike how it is today. -
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Facebook is created
Facebook
Today, Facebook is the most popular social-networking site in the world, with every one person in fourteen using it. -
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Webkinz is created
First webkinz Website
On the first website, there is not much action going on and you can only click on a few things. Now, you can click on alot of stuff and the whole page is filled. -
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First video call is made
First Video Call
Bell’s Picturephone service dials up the world’s first videophone call.
