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The invention of the movable taype and mass produced paper.
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During the 1960's , The Cold War began in the United States adn the Soviet Union grew in intensity.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Teachnology proposed linking computers together in diffused and decentrilized network so the computers could share data from long distances away.
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Vint Cerf worked on the ARPANET project in the 1960's as a gradute from UCLA.
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Inventers like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were building smaller but sill pwerful computrers and software that busniess and individuals could use
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ARPANET began to grow rapidly as more universites and goverment research labitories became hooked up to the network using tools such as TCP/ IP.
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Researchers sent the first e-mail using the now unfamilier name @domain.com.
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Apple, Atari, and many other companies in the U.S began to produce small, afforadable computersw.
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Supercomputer were being built in labratories and universites.
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By the beginning aof the decade, the Deparment of Defense mad it clear that they did not want to run a national computer network that was not directly related to defense work.
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Teh structure laid down by the NSF allowed networks in other countries to link easily.
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The internet allowed people to shop online, communicate with friends and family, and to reaserch diseases.
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Internet in not just used with compters it is used with cell phones now.
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The NSF came up with the Internet2.
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In 1997, the NSF decommissioneed a contreact to domain the names on te internet.
