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robert e kahn and vint cerf
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Scientists and military experts were especially concerned about what might happen in the event of a Soviet attack on the nation’s telephone system.
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ARPAnet delivered its first message: a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another. (The first computer was located in a research lab at UCLA and the second was at Stanford; each one was the size of a small house.
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just four computers were connected to the ARPAnet, but the network grew steadily during the 1970s.
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MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson helped build the ARPANET (precursor to the Internet). In those days, messages could only be sent to those using the same exact computer. On his own initiative, Tomlinson wrote a program that allowed people to send messages between different computers – and invented email in the process.
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Cerf’s protocol transformed the internet into a worldwide network. Throughout the 1980s, researchers and scientists used it to send files and data from one computer to another.
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In the mid-1990s, Gurdeep Singh-Pall, a software engineer at Microsoft, helped developed a technology called PPTP: peer-to-peer tunneling protocol. PPTP allowed for a computer to set up a secure connection or “tunnel” to a remote server and was essential for companies like Microsoft to establish private connections to their work networks from remote locations
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Much of the Internet we use right now is using our mobile phones. But the first mobile phone that had Internet connectivity was a Nokia model. The Nokia 9000 Communicator was the first phone with Internet enabled and launched in Finland in 1996. At this time however, the viability of using the Internet was limited because of very expensive prices charged by operators. However, by 1999-2000, mobile internet started becoming a more accessible reality.
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Steven Wilhite is known as the inventor of the GIF – those animated images that you see everywhere online. When deciding on the pronunciation of his invention, Wilhite said he deliberately chose to echo the American peanut butter brand, since his fellow CompuServe employees would often say (in reference to Jif’s TV commercials): “Choosy developers choose GIF (jif).”
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In 1995, Sergey Brin, a 21-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was assigned to show Larry Page, a 22-year-old prospective student, around campus.
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he first online gambling software was created in 1994 by Microgaming. And the first real money wager took place way back in an online casino in 1996
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit.
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The first email that was ever sent was by Ray Tomlinson to himself. Ray Tomlinson was the inventor of the email program on the ARPANET system. He received the email on a computer that was right next to him
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nspired by the success of Foursquare, Burbn was a location-based iPhone app developed by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It let users check in at certain locations, make plans for future check-ins, earn points for hanging out with friends, and post pictures of the meet-ups.
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anet Jackson’s performance at the 2004 Superbowl might be one of the biggest viral moments of the early 2000s. But you’ll probably be amazed to hear that this fiasco stirred up more than just tabloid drama – it inspired the creation of one of the world’s most popular UGC (user-generated content) platforms.
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n 2004, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg was banned from access to Harvard’s Internet following his creation of the controversial “FaceMash” site. In pretty creepy fashion, FaceMash “mashed up” faces of students side-by-side and let visitors choose who was “hot” or “not.”
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In 2006, a company called Odeo, which was founded as a podcasting platform, was failing due to lack of growth and investors. So they decided to start holding company-wide “hackathons” to generate some ideas.
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Jimmy Wales, a research director for a Chicago firm, was so addicted to the Internet that he spent his free time writing computer codes. His passion eventually led to the creation one of the most popular sites on the web: Wikipedia.
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Google share of worldwide desktop and laptop searches in 2019 was 75.74%. Bing and Baidu are the second and third most popular search engines. Yet, their market share is 9.41% and 9.34% respectively.