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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, most commonly known as ARPANET, was created in 1969 by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
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The first message was intended to be LOGIN; however, the SRI system crashed before the word could be typed, so the first message sent was "LO"
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To establish standard protocols, network email was introduced by Ray Tomlinson.
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The term, "Internet" is coined as the dream of global networking becomes true.
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Internet chat was founded at the University of Illinois.
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Commercial Internet service provider, Telenet was introduced that was similar to ARPANET.
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Queen Elizabeth II sends her first email.
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The first apple computer was invented by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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Symbolics.com became the first registered domain representing symbolic computer corp in Massachusetts.
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World Wide Web, commonly known as WWW was first introduced by CERN.
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Microsoft creates a Web browser for Windows 95.
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Yahoo, founded by two graduating students from Stanford University, was originally planned to be named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web."
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Wifi was first introduced which improves communication for the wireless local area networks.
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The evolutionary search engine Google was invented.
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WordPress, the blog publishing platform was created.
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The introduction of Facebook marked the beginning of the social media platforms and during this time, Mozilla also introduced a new web browser named Firefox.
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Two more social platforms are introduced; Youtube, created by formal PayPal workers. As well as Reddit, founded by Steve Huffman.
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The release of the iPhone by Apple introduced our world to mobile devices and since then mobile devices have continued to improve.
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The 40th Anniversary of the Internet was celebrated with events organized at the University of California and the Computer Museum in Los Angeles.
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Facebook is the first social media platform to reach the 400 million user milestone. New social media platforms are introduced such as, Pinterest and Instagram.
