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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.
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Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.
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A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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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 opens its first office, in California
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“E-commerce” becomes the new buzzword as Internet shopping rapidly spreads.
MySpace.com is launched. -
YouTube.com is launched
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Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week.
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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.
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