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In 1958, the U.S. Department of Defense commissioned ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency). It is an agency whose purpose is to create new technologies for use by the military. The name was later changed to DARPA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
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In 1962, Joseph Licklider, thought of a concept called the Galactic Network. It was a concept very similar to today's Internet. He imagined it to be open to everyone as a source of information. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Internet_map_1024_-_transparent.png/150px-Internet_map_1024_-_transparent.png.
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Using Licklider's idea of the Galactic Network, Larry Roberts connected two computers that shared files with each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist).
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On October 15, 1967, on my Dad's 10th birthday, he got his first transistor radio. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sanyo_Transistor.jpg.
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In 1969, ARPANET was created with the help of Leonard Kleinrock, one of its main contributors. ARPANET was a "demo" for a computer network that connected computers from four universities or nodes in the southwestern US. The linkage of these computers was the forerunner to the Internet. http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/1960s.jsp.
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In 1972, researchers sent the first email using the same name@domain.com nomenclature we use today. By the end of the decade, thousands were sending emails. http://smpsboston.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/email-marketing-button2.jpg.
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In 1974, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn co-designed TCP/IP, which stands for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a code that computers use to exchange information. http://hwi.uni.be/hwi_uk.html.
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In 1987, a project called NFSNET tried to link its regional university computers and its supercomputer centers together. By July, this system was up and running. The Modern Internet was born. http://www.audienciaelectronica.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Internet-Republica-Dominicana.jpg.
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In 1989, at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee invented WWW also known as the World Wide Web. This creation popularized the Internet. http://pcdeyim.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/www.jpg.
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On January 23, 1993, Mosaic, the first popular web browser was released. It was developed by NCSA. It is the first web browser to popularize the World Wide Web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser).
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In October, 1994, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) was founded. W3C was founded by Tim Berners-Lee who has served as director. The consortium aims to develop the standards for the WWW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium.
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In March, 2000, my Mom got her first cell phone, a flip phone.
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On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia launched. Created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia is a site that people can freely access free content. It is an Internet Encyclopedia. As of 2014, it has 18 billion page views and about 500 million different visitors a month. It is the sixth-most popular website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.
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On February 4, 2004 Facebook was founded by Marc Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, all Harvard University students. It is an online social networking service where users can create a profile, post status updates, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook.
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On Feburary 14, 2005 YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karin. It has been owned by Google since 2006. YouTube allows people to share, upload, and view videos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube.
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The iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. Steve Jobs of Apple came up with the idea. The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry with its multi-touch touchscreen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation).
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I got my iPod Touch 4th Generation for Christmas on December 24, 2011. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/4th_Generation_iPod_touch.png/320px-4th_Generation_iPod_touch.png.
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Psy's video for the song, Gangham Style, uploaded to YouTube on July 15, 2012, is the most viewed YouTube video as of now. It has 2,083,625,879 views as of September 10, 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_viewed_YouTube_videos.
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I got my first laptop, a HP laptop, for my birthday on December 21, 2013.
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I got my PS4 on June 6, 2014 after school was out.
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