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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 networkwas 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 developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate
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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 by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington,
and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is born
The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California
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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
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 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. -
First Wireless Internet Provider
eHow Article on this subject
The first wireless internet service provider was established in 1992, Brett Glass, of Laramie Wyoming, founded a nonprofit telecommunications service called LARIAT (now defunct). The purpose of the first wireless Internet service provider was to create internet access to residents of rural areas not serviced by cable or high-speed technology. -
NCSA Mosaic - the first widley used web browser
Follow for an eHow article on the history of web browsers In 1993, NCSA Mosaic web browser was released on many operating systems including Windows and Mac OS. NCSA Mosaic was the first web browser in wide use. The use of Gopher declined with Mosaic's introduction. -
Perseus Digital Library
wiki article for perseus project
Perseus Project launches Perseus Digital Library on the World Wide Web. The project was founded in 1987 at Tufts University to collect and present materials for study of ancient Greece. The project has expanded its original scope; current collections cover Greco-Roman classics, the English Renaissance. -
Google is Founded
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin found the search engine Google which is now one of the most used search engines .
"The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"[8] and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil"." -
Facebook launched
wiki article on Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of June 2012, Facebook has over 955 million active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. -
Youtube is Released
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YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. -
Smosh debutes on YouTube
Wiki article on Smosh
Smosh joined YouTube in November 2005 and has since become one of the most popular YouTube channels. -
Google Buys Youtube, LLC
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In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
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FAIL Blog launched
Wiki article on FAIL BlogFAIL Blog chronicles disastrous mishaps and general stupidity in photos and video. Users can upload a picture of someone (or something) failing at an activity, and have the option of captioning it with the words "fail", "epic fail", "X Fail", or "X; You're doin' it wrong" (X being the activity at which the subject has failed). There are also multiple sites under the FAIL Blog brand, including Failbook (which features FAILs on Facebook), Ugliest Tattoos, There, I Fixed It, and Memebase. -
Facebook goes public
USA Today Article
'The mammoth initial public stock offering values the social-networking giant at $75 billion to $100 billion and has been eagerly anticipated as a defining moment for the latest Web-investing boom.'
It failed however.
