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Joseph Marie Jacquard played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom which is
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics~The USSR launched Sputnik a artificial satellite into space and to create global connections with it. Carrying the missions of becoming the leading force in science and new technologies
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BBN is called upon to build the first switch, ARPA contracts out to work with them
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- Kahn and Cerf refer to the system as the Internet for the first time.
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TCP/IP becomes the standard for internet protocol.
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The number of Hosts breaks 1,000
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The number of hosts breaks 10,000
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The first search engine is created by McGill University, called the Archie Search Engine
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- CERN releases the World Wide Web publicly on August 6th, 1991
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InterNIC released to provide general services, a database and internet directory.
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First internet ordering system created by Pizza Hut.
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Nokia releases first cell phone with internet access.
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The WWW browser wars are waged mainly between Microsoft and Netscape. New versions are released quarterly with the aid of internet users eager to test new (beta) versions.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) created to be able to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks
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Blackberry releases first internet cell phone in the United States.
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The French Ministry of Culture bans the use of the word "e-mail" by government ministries, and adopts the use of the more French sounding "courriel"
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Youtube launches
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There are an estimated 92 million websites online
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NASA successfully tests the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Using software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, dozens of space images are transmitted to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about more than 32 million kilometers from Earth
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Facebook announces in February that it has 400 million active users.
