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in this time only one percent of information was transported through the internet.
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The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.
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companies start selling via email therefore introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary.
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Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet, with roughly 30 million of those in North America (United States and Canada), 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific
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Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day.
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Google opens its first office
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MySpace.com is launched
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The number of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million
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in this time about 51% of info was transported via internet
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computer programmers begin designing and circulating viruses with greater frequency
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Wikipedia is created.
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Worldwide there are 544.2 million users.
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5.5 million internet users at the en of 2003
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spam accounts for about half of all emails.
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About 1 in 12 email messages are infected with internet worm
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YouTube.com is launched.
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Since this date blogging has decreased in young adults and teens.
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There are more than 92 million websites online.
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in this time more than 97% of information was passed by the internet
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6.7 million downloads per week
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Teens use internet more than adults do.
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major protest online
24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia site
