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USSR launches first artificial earth satellite
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ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers"
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Packet switching technology
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Unix: the operating system
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"Interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network in 1970
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Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks.
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP)
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) which were the first two networking protocols defined in this standard.
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An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent (MUA), is a computer program that runs on a user's computer used to manage the user's email. Popular email clients include Microsoft Outlook, Pegasus Mail, Mozilla's Thunderbird, and Apple Inc.'s Mail.
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A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
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A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users, either through electronic mail or in public message boards.
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A MUD (Multi-User Dungeon), pronounced /ˈmʌd/, is a multiplayer real-time virtual world described primarily in text. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat.
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Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.
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ENQUIRE was an early software project written in the second half of 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, who went on to create the World Wide Web in 1989
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An emoticon is a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression.
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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.
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The Open Desktop Workstation, also referred to as ODW is a PowerPC based computer, by San Antonio-based Genesi. The ODW has an interchangeable CPU card allowing for a wide range of Power Architecture based microprocessors from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor.
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.
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The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP.
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