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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. -
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 connected 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 seperate the user name from the computer name ( which later on became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was publsihed 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). -
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 precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-basd virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactie, 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 n umerical 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. -
First web page created
It brought same major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, the purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was. -
Amazon is made
Amazon was created in Seattle, Washington. It was originally only for books, but has expanded to everything similar to Ebay.Amazon -
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Ebay was created and launched for the whole world to use.
Ebay is a online shopping website, and is still used today.Ebay -
Google is created.
Google is a massive search engine that lets you navigate and find information on the world wide web.Google -
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Facebook is created
Facebook is createdFacebook is created, another social media website. You can post pictures, and thoughts here. -
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Twitter is created
Twitter A social media site called twitter is created. You can send out 140 character messages to the world. -
Bing is created for use.
Bing Another search engine, similar to Google is created. You can search the worldwideweb and you can use this to shop as well. -
The App Vine is created.
Vine allows you to make short 6-second videos and post them. It is a social media website. Vine
