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  Launch of the USSR satalite Sputnik
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  ARPA formed (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
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  US Airforce ordered the creation of a network capable of surviving a nuclear atack.
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  ARPANET created with a network between University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah, University of California at Los Angeles, and Stanford Research Institute.
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  First e-mail program written.
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  Development starts on TCP/IP by ARPA, used to allow different networks to connect.
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  The IP address was first used, as a place to direct information.
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  Domain names invented, the URLs we use, as a place to direct packets. Servers converted the names into IP addresses.
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  The world wide web was released as a means to access pages of information that are contained on severs.
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  Internet2 experimentation commenced.
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  Google launched.
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  Google reaches 1 billion URLs and are deemed world’s largest search engine.
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  1 Billion Internet users.