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ARPA goes online in december , connecting four major US universiies.Desinged for resarch.
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Ray Tomlinson, a computer engineer working for Bolt Beranek and newman is campbrige, Massachusetts, developed a system for sending messages between computers that used the @ symbol
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Tomlinson's system gained popularity by linking up users on arpanet, the us department of defence system that became the basis for the internet
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Larry Roberts also work on arpnet writes the frist email management program that develops the ability to list.
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transfermation control protocal/ Intenetprotocal is desinged and in !(*# it becomes the standard.
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January 1 Queen Elizabeth II sends an email message on arpnet, becoming the first head of state
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The word internet is used for the first time.
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Domaine name system is establisted, with network addesses identifided by extentions such as .com, .org, and .edu writerwillaim gibson
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January 1 Steve Doner invents Edora, an application that gives a popular face to email by providing graphical user interface for email management
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The first release of loutus notes email software. 35,000 copies are sold in the first year.
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Microsoft releases internet Mail and News 1.0,a feature of its third release of internet explore. this is later renamed Outlook.
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A few compines including the fledging Hotmail begin to offer free, use anywhere, internet email.
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About 10 million users world wide havve free web mail accounts.
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Microsoft buys Hotmail for 400m$ (283m).
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Napster is dealt a potentally fatal blow when the 9th us circut court of appels in san fransisco rules that the company is violating copyright laws and orders it to stop distrubiting copyrighted music.The file-swapping company says it is a subsciption base.
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Facebook open email.