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President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.
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Nine years after its formation, the ARPA hosts a study on “cooperative network of time–sharing computers.” Shortly thereafter, two computers, one from the MIT Lincoln Lab and one from the System Development Corporation (SDC), are successfully connected with a dedicated 1200bps phone line. A third computer, at ARPA, is added to form “The Experimental Network.”
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The unix operating system is created.
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ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), created by a small research team at the head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the contemporary global Internet. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by Lawrence Roberts, of the Lincoln Laboratory.
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Ray Tomlinson, who also made the desicion to use the "@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name(which later became the domain name.)
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Start of TCP/ICP
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The "reply" and "forward" functions are made.
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The earliest form of multiplayer games is created
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The domain name system is developed and the “.com” era is born. Other domains are also developed including .edu and .gov.
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The proposal for the world wide web is made
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The Internet is introduced to the public. World.std.com becomes the first company to provide Internet access through dial–up.
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The first webcam is created
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The first webpage
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Advertising becomes commonly used online.
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companies begin to provide online connections through traditional dial–up services. Households across the world go online.
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Companies begin providing free computers with a signed contract for Internet service.
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The size of the World Wide Web is estimated to exceed 1 billion pages
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Myspace becomes tghe most popular social network. Myspace opens up its doors. It later grew to be the most popular social netowkr at one time.
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Youtube.com launches
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Twitter is born and begins to grow at a rapid rate.
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1.125 billion people estimated to use the internet
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The iphone and mobile web are created
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The first emoticon is created
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Netscapemaking it safer to conduct financial transactions (like credit card payments) online
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Internet reaches over 2.5 billion users
