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The Arpanet
The Arpanet was the start of a well known gem that we all know and love. The first message sent was going to be "login" but it crashed at the g. -
Unix
Unix was a major milestone in the sixtees, -
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Yey, a lovey timespan
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Arpanet Network
The arpanet network was established between Harvard MIT and BNN (The inventers of the interface message processor
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The Email
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson began production of something to allow people to send messages to their buds without using paper, the Email. Ray also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to seperate the username from the domain. -
Project Gutenburg
Project gutenberg was one of the most impressive developments and was made on the same year as the Email. Project Gutenberg is an effort to make books or documents from the public domain electronically available. -
MUD
1979 holds an invention that is quite important to the gamer steriotype. Without it, we wouldn't have such great games such as Uncharted 3, Drakes Deception, (I chose it because I like it) But let's cut to the chase. On the year 1979, MUD, short for Multiuser Dungeun, was created, the earliest form of multiplayer games. It looks like MS DOS to me. -
Emoticons
The first emoticon was actually by Kevin MacKenzie and it was this -). But it was Scott Fahlman who made the modern emoticon we all know and love, :-). -
First Webpage
1991 was a great year for the development of the internet. First up, it was the year that the very first webpage was created. It explained the world wide web was. -
First Webcam
Another reason why 1991 was a great year for internet development was it was the year of the first webcam. The funny thing is, it was used to ensure that lab users could avoid wasted trips to an empty coffee pot. -
Google!
On 1998, the beta of a search engine we all know and love was created. That's right, Google. -
Youtube
In 2005, the free online video hostng website we all know and love was invented, Youtube. Yes, admit it, We as humans still use it today as part of our daily entertainment -
The Internet today
There's no doubt about it.We as humans can unite as one, and say that we have it easy today. Before, there was no such thing as a DNS server and you had to type down the IP adress, and the only thing that came close to games such as Second life looked likeyou are trying to run an MS DOS computer game. Back then it was a whole different story. -
The Future
But this thing isn't over. I think that in the future, multiplayer games will be crystal clear, wepages can be acessed by the press of a button, and Facebook would have bested Mcdonalds and took over the world... But maily, the internet will be much smarter than us. Even pure genius, can not beat it -
Bibliography
Works Cited
Feedburner. "Six Revisions." The History of the Internet in a Nutshell. 88355 Readers, 4 Nov. 2008. Web. 02 Nov. 2012. http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/.
