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Advanced Research Projects Agency 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 Aparanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN ( the company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created -
Email was first devolped
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 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 (which eventually became TCP/IP -
The first Personal Computer Modem is invented
The modem was invented was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and intially sold to computer hobbyists -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (later know as spam), was sent out to 600 California arpanetusers 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-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
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First web page created
brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created
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Ebay.com
Pierre Omidyar founded the original site as AuctionWeb in 1995 and later renamed the site to match his consulting firms name, "Echo Bay Technology Group". Since echobay.com was not available he shortened it to ebay.com -
Craigslist.org
The most popular classifieds website on the Internet has for quite some time been craigslist. It was started in 1995 by Craig Newmark but not as a site most people see it today. In fact, Craig's original "list" was a mailing list for notices of social events that would interest software developers. As things sometimes happen on the Internet without proper moderation, net users find ways to use something developed for one purpose for something else entirely, such as postings for tech jobs.Things -
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Ask.com
Is owned by InterActiveCorp, was launched way back in 1996, and is a very popular question and answer resource on the world wide web. It was originally called Ask Jeeves, and was a search engine that would do its best to "Find Answers" to your search questions rather than using the more common keyword or key phrase method. Today, Ask.com has deferred its search engine operations to a third party, as competition was simply too overwhelming, and have focused more on the "expert" Q&A Community. -
Yahoo.com
It was formed way back in 1996 by Yahoo! and Softbank joint venture and the first web portal in Japan. The company has almost 4,000 employees and has its headquarters in Tokyo. -
Soso.com
The soso.com domain was created on February 8th 1998 and is owned by Betty Wang Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems CO.,Ltd.
It is set to expire on February 7th 2019. -
Blogger.com
Blogger.com is the homepage of Google's "Blogger" service which allows anyone to create a blog and have it hosted free on a custom blogspot.com subdomain. Originally created by Pyra Labs in 1999, Google took control of the service in 2003. -
Wikipedia.org
There is no doubt that the content on Wikipedia is rich and full of accurate information. It is run by a non profit company, the Wikimedia Foundation. It was created in 2001 by Bomis, Inc. CEO Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, editor of Nupedia, meant to facilitate and provide a feeder system for the submission and editorial process performed by actual real world paid experts and authors. Within a year however, it became apparent that the open wiki model worked, and Nupedia was phased out and its ar -
Paypal.com
PayPal is the most popular way to pay for things online. It allows you to connect your bank accounts or credit card accounts directly with your email address allowing you to send and receive money over the Internet. Its rise to fame was no doubt linked to the success of eBay, the most popular online auction service on the net, which used PayPal as its preferred method of online commerce for buyers and sellers. In fact, eBay now owns PayPal after it purchased it for $1.5 Billion in October 2012 -
