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Department of Defense grows the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) from a paper architecture into a small network called ARPANET.
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Robert Kahn exhibits first public demonstration of ARPANET at the International Computer Communication Conference
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Queen Elizabeth II sends her first email.
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Tim Bernes-Lee creates world wide web on a NeXT Computer
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AOL as an early pioneer and one of the first to offer dial-up service to millions of Americans.
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Now the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales breaks ground as the first major online retailer.
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The Google search engine is born.
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Napster is created as a peer to peer file sharing Internet service emphasized on digital audio files
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Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins and reaches 400 million users by 2010.
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Apple changes the world with the release of the first iPhone
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Automaker Tesla sent its cars a software update that suddenly made autonomous driving a reality.