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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.