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The Beginning
The U.S. military's funding of a research network dubbed Arpanet begins. Arpanet was for the Advanced Research Projects Agency. http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/020909-evolution-internet.html#slide2 -
Name Change...
Arpanet was renamed the Internet in 1984, when it linked 1,000 hosts at university and corporate labs. -
Domain Names are Introduced
The Internet's Domain Name System was created in 1984 to match complex IP addresses with easy-to-remember names ending in extensions such as .com, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil and country codes including .de for Germany. -
Attack!
The Morris Worm was the first major attack on the Internet, disabling 10% of the Internet's 60,000 host computers. -
World Wide Web (WWW.)
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as a method of publishing information in a hypertext format on the Internet. -
Web Begins to become popular
The Web began to take off in 1993, after computer science student Marc Andreessen created the first popular Web browser, known as Mosaic. -
Flash
A multimedia platform used to add animation,video, and interactivity to web pages. -
SPAM Mail Arrives
In 2003, Spam Mail totaled up to 15 billion messages sent daily. This was considered high at the time, but as of today, spam mail is being sent out 164 billion times daily!!!! -
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TODAY
Today there are 1.9 billion internet users, which is equivalent to 30% of the worlds population!
