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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created
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Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
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An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company that created the "interfaced Messenger used to connect the network) was created -
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 (which would later become the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-esque networks together intto 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 was invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes an Dale Heatherington and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email (later known a spam) was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- the first form of a multiplayer game was debuted
The precursor of World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for Multi-User Dongeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used.
While meny people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman 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 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 automatically. -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on hisproposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
First Web page created
This 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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Yahoo! goes online
Yahoo!
Yahoo, started in Stanford; it is one of the biggest search engines used in our good old country. -
Internet Explorer debuts
Internet Explorer, a widely used web browser, debuts for Windows 95. -
eBay is created
eBayOriginally named AuctionWeb, this online auction store is an internationally known place to sell unused or damaged items. -
Google is founded
Google
Google, one of the most widely used search engines, is founded as a company. -
Wikipedia is created
Wikipedia, the online enciclopedia, is formally launched. Today, it has over 30 million pages, with over 4 million in English. -
Safari debuts
SafariSafari, the default browser for Apple, and a very widely used browser, is released. -
Mozilla Firefox is released
firefox
Mozilla Firefox, one of the leading Web browsers, is released for people to use. -
Youtube goes on the web
YoutubeThe immensely popular video-watching site, Youtube, goes on the web. Today, over one billion unique users visit Youtube daily. -
Google Chrome is released
ChromeGoogle Chrome, a browser widely considered the fastest, is released by Google.
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