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When Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created
Found a way that computers can talk to eachother in case of nuclear attack. -
When computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first hosts on what would one day become the internet. -
When an Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN in 1970 was created. -
when 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. -
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. -
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, was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
MUD - The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precusor to World of Warcraft and second life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD. MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactions, fiction, and online chat. -
when ESPN was created
Espn
As of February 2015, ESPN is available to approximately 94,396,000 paid television households. -
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 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. -
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 1991
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. -
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When eBay was created
eBayEBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. -
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When Facebook was created
Facebook
600,000 hacking attempts are made to facebook accounts every day. -
When youtube was created
Youtube
The first month after its creation, Youtube had 3 million visitors. -
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When Instagram was created
Instagram
AS of August 2014, there was over 300 million active users on Instagram.
