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The United States government formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency which started new efforts in science and technology and would eventually go on to nurture the internet
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Bolt, Beranek, and Newman created interface message processors which was the necessary hardware for sending and receiving bursts of data and presented it to U.C.L.A
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Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" in his book The Selfish Gene and a few decades later would go on to provide non stop entertainment for when you're on the toilet
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Technological juggernaut Apple is started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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A pioneering company to the internet and introduced online messaging to the masses
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One of the largest physics labs in the world called CERN launched the internet as we know it today
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Brought the internet to the average american and was the first widely used internet browser
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The worlds largest internet browser is launched
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The social networking site that the took the world by storm in the mid 2000's and set the precedent for most social media networks today
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Young Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook originally only meant for college students but would grow to be the supreme social media site to this day
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The world now had easy access to whatever kind of PG-13 content and cat videos they could desire all with the click of a button
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Twitter let the world share each others thoughts in 140 characters or less
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The undisputed king of Twitter President Donald J. Trump uploads his first tweet which was a plug for "Late Night with David Letterman"
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Instagram came to the app store and made it easier for the world to share photos to each other
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Korean pop star Psy became the first to break the 1 billion view mark with his cultural phenomena of a song Gangnam style
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Former C.I.A operative Edward Snowden leaks documents reavealing that the NSA is spying on citizens including their social media
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Zuckerberg testifies to selling private information of over 80 million Facebook users
