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History of the internet

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  • ARPA

    ARPA

    ARPA was founded and its purpose was to establish US lead in science and technology
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  • Birth of Internet

    Birth of Internet

  • Defense was added to create DARPA

    Defense was added to create DARPA

    ARPA changed to DARPA
  • Spam was born

    Spam was born

  • 1st virus

    1st virus

  • Domain Name Registering (DNS)

    Domain Name Registering (DNS)

  • The Morris Worm

    The Morris Worm

    One of the first major Internet worms was released in 1988. Referred to as "The Morris Worm", it was wriiten by Robert Tappan Morris and caused major interruptions across large parts of the Internet.
  • Web pages

    Web pages

    The first web page was created and its purpose to explain what the world wide web was,
  • Commercialization

    Commercialization

    The first Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption was developed by netscape and making it safer to conduct financial transaction online
  • Google was privately incorporated

    Google was privately incorporated

  • Facebook

    Facebook

    Launched by Mark Zuckerberg from Harvard. Facebook currently has 400 million users.
  • Google's 1st public offering

    Google's 1st public offering

  • iPhone and Mobile Web

    iPhone and Mobile Web

    The biggest innovation of 2007 was almost certainly the iPhone, which was almost wholly responsible for renewed interest in mobile web applications and designs.