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ARPAnet
the begining of a network that helped connect the people working to do space explorations -
UNIX
UNIX was created as a sort of language to better help connect the network -
ARPANET network
this was when all of the ivy league colleges (Harvard, Stanford,ect.) begain bringing in the APRANET networking syles and even network its self to teach with. -
Project Gutenberg
Michal Hart began trying to work on the idea and production of electronic-books -
Email
Ray Tomlinson began working on the idea of email, and decided to use the @ symbol -
CYCLADES
France begins working on ARPANET -
the first Transitlantic and popularity of emailing
this is when the internet began to connect all around the world, and naturally everyone began emailing eachother -
beginning of TCP/IP
when the internet advanced from being a mediated ARPANET and began being known as a "inter-network" -
the email client
emailing becomes more modern. making it easier and more efficent -
beginning of PC modem
this is the year that Dinnis Hayes and Dale Hetherington got together and they made the first pc modem, and began selling them to hobbiests around for personal use -
beginning of spam
this was when all the email services began advertising -
MUD
earliest forms of online multi-player games -
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the first emoticon -
ARPANET switches to CIT/TP
this is when CIT/TP took over ARPANET -
Vitrual communities
this is when virtual reality came out on the internet -
battles began about which protocol was used
the arguement was over which style to use world wide -
internet grows
the internet started being able to host around 1,000 users and by 1987 had grown to over 30,000 users -
IRC
the beginnings of real time chat -
AOL
America OnLine comes into being -
proposal of WWW
this is when World Wide Web was in its beginning stages -
Dial-Up
this is when dial-up became commercial to the general public -
WWW released
this is when World Wide Web was released to the world -
first web page was created
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Gopher
fist infromation based search engine -
MP3
this is when MP3 becomes standard on all computers -
Mosaic
this is the first graphic internet browser used by the general public -
government
this is the beginning of .gov and .org -
commercializing the internet
this is when coperations, and business began using the internet to advertise -
the vatican
the vatican took some information to the internet then -
web Mail
this is when HoTMaiL came into being using they HTML format to send and recive items like email -
Weblogs
this is the beginning of when people started making blogs -
Media
this is the first breaking news made online instead of traditional ways (this was the Bill Clinton scandal that was reported.) -
Google
debut of google -
Dot com fails
this is when people stoped using .com so much, and investiors began to loose money on it. -
launching of wikipedia
this is the first year that wikipedia is realesed -
skype
this is the year that skype is released to make web chatting easier -
MySpace
its the place for people -
social media
this is the year that the term social media is adoped -
Facebook
is is the year that facebook was relesed only to college students to test how well everyone would like it -
youtube
this is when youtube began its mass media website -
streaming movies
this is when sites began to allow streaming movies via internet -
iphone
apple releases the iphone and its moble web -
internet election
this was the first election that social media, and advertising via internet was used as a tool