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Advanced Research Projects Agency
Found a way compueters can talk to each other in case of a nuclear attack -
computers at Standford and UCLA connected for the first time
The first host 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 proccesor" computers used to be 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 username from the computer name -
The beginng of TCP/IP
A propasal was published to link ARPA-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network" which would have no centeral control and would work around a transmition control protocol -
From Arpanet to NSFNET
After a few years they turned over -
The firat personal computer modern is invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington and was introduced and intially sold to computer hobbyyists -
Spam is born
The first unsolicted commercial email messages (later known as Spam), was sent out to 600 Califorina Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- the earlist 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
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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
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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
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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
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Google
This was when google had its first web page -
Apple
Apples first website was up -
Addicting games
Addicting Games became popular at this time -
Shawnee
Shawnne first web page -
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SportsCenter
Sportscenter first web page when it started getting popular -
Time Toast
Time toast first web page was created
