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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
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 decison to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name 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 transmission control protocol (which eventually became the domian 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. -
MILNET
http://networkandprotocols.blogspot.com/2011/10/internet-historytimeline-and-important.htmlIn 1983, ARPANET was split into two networks: MILNET for military users and ARPANET for non military users. -
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. -
NSFNET
http://networkandprotocols.blogspot.com/2011/10/internet-historytimeline-and-important.htmlWith the success of CSNET, the NSF, in 1986, sponsored NSFNET, a backbone that connected five supercomputer centres located throughout the United States. Community networks were allowed access to this backbone, a T1 line with a 1.544 Mbps data rate, thus providing connectivity throughout the United States. -
The GIF image
http://www.cnet.com/news/the-50-most-significant-moments-of-internet-history/CompuServe developers released the GIF image. GIF had became very popular and later in time changed the web into full color. -
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. -
The Internet is introduced to the public.
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/important-events-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web.htmlWorld.std.com becomes the first company to provide Internet access through dial–up. -
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. -
Mosaic beta
http://www.cnet.com/news/the-50-most-significant-moments-of-internet-history/The real first browser was Mosaic. Developed by Marc Adreessen. He was a student at Illinois University. The 1.0 release was made available in April 1993. -
Amazon was created
www.amazon.com Amazon was created in 1994 and started their first headquarters in Seattle, Washington -
Ebay
ebay In 1995, Pierre Omidyar created a site called AuctionWeb. Two years later, the name would be changed to eBay, and Omidyar would become a billionaire. -
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Network Solutions offers the one-hundred year domain name registration.
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/important-events-in-the-history-of-the-world-wide-web.html The Internet continues to change the media, the economy, entertainment, technology and the way we view the world. What’s in the future of the World Wide Web? Wireless Internet access may be broadcasted free like radio and television across the world. Many large -
Youtube was created
youtube
YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.
