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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack. -
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). -
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
the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
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
Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
Microsoft Office was created
Microsoft Office
The day that Microsoft Office was launched, it contained only PowerPoint, Exel, and Mail at first but later launched word, Outlook, and others available to download via the internet. -
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. -
Amazon was created
Amazon
The day that Amazon was created on the internet. The name for amazon was decided because it was "exotic and different". -
Netflix was created
Netflix
The day that Netflix was created on the internet. It was originally a service for getting rental movies shipped to your door by ordering them on the internet. -
Google was created
Google
The day that Google was created. At that time it was just an internet "beta search engine" without gmail or other add ons. -
Facebook was created
Facebook
The day that Facebook was officialy created on the internet. It was previously called Facemash, then TheFacebook, and fiinally Facebook. They purchased the Facebook domain from facebook.com for $200,000. -
Gmail was created
Gmail
The day that Gmail launched as apart of the popular Internet search engine Google. -
Youtube was created
Youtube
The day that Youtube was created on the internet as a way to share videos over the internet. It was bought by Google in 2006. -
Twitter was created
Twitter
The day that Twitter was put online the internet. It was originally called Twtter do to the fact the the twitter domain was already in use unti they purchased the domain. -
Instagram was launched
Instagram
The day that Instagram was launched on the App Store and also on the internet (Instagram.com). The name comes from the words instant camera and telegram. -
Snapchat was launched
Snapchat
The day that Snapchat was first launchedon the App store and also on the internet (Snapchat.com). It was originally called Picaboo but then relaunched as Snapchat.
