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first internet game
Tennis for Two was first introduced on October 18, 1958, at one of the Lab’s annual visitors’ days. Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen.
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Advance Research Projects Agency is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
when computer animation began
It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created the first true computer animation program. Instead of presenting a series of numbers, Sutherland's Sketchpad program drew lines that created recognizable images.
(http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/In-Focus/2013/Moving-Innovation-A-History-of-Computer-Animatio.aspx) -
computers at Standford 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 separatethe username from the computer name. (which later on became the domain name) -
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 tansmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP) -
The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was inventeed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and intially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precurcor 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. -
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. -
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. -
start of wifi
Wi-Fi would certainly not exist without a decision taken in 1985 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), America's telecoms regulator, to open several bands of wireless spectrum, allowing them to be used without the need for a government licence. (http://www.economist.com/node/2724397)
(http://www.economist.com/node/2724397) -
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
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. -
Yahoo was founded
The site was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995. (https://www.google.com/#q=when+yahoo+was+made) -
Amazon is found
An online Retailing website founded and created by a man by the name of Jeffrey P. Bezos. (https://www.fundable.com/learn/startup-stories/amazon) -
The first web banner was made
Created and sold to AT&T by HotWired and was put online (https://www.google.com/#q=when+was+the+first+online+advertisement) -
Creation of internet memes
a 3-D diapered baby started doing the cha-cha on the Internet and inside TV character Ally McBeal’s brain.
With that dancing baby came the birth of the Internet meme.
(http://news.discovery.com/tech/where-do-internet-memes-come-from.htm) -
The first recognizable social media site was made
Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and continued to be popular well into the 1990's. The first recognizable social media site was called Six Degrees. (http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html) -
Google was founded
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. (https://www.google.com/#q=when+google+was+made) -
Youtube was founded
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. (https://www.google.com/#q=when+youtube+was+made)
