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Electronic Email 1972
Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address. -
Domain System 1984
Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu. -
Virus 1988
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. -
White House 1994
The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.
Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary. -
Google Office
Google opens its first office, in California -
Myspace Release
“E-commerce” becomes the new buzzword as Internet shopping rapidly spreads.
MySpace.com is launched. -
Youtube Release
YouTube.com is launched -
Online music downloads
Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week. -
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo
In a move to challenge Google's dominance of search and advertising on the Internet, software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. -
