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ARPANET
Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems. -
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History of the internet
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Email
Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address. -
The word 'internet' is used for the firs time
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A virus called the Internet Worm shuts down Internet.
A virus called the Internet Worm for short time shuts down nearly 10% of the world's Internet servers. -
Tim Berners-Lee and the team at CERN invent the World Wide
Tim Berners-Lee of European Laboratory for Particle Physics creates new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. -
eBay is launched.
Today ebay is billion dollar business and one of the leading auctiong sites in the world.The online auction website was founded as AuctionWeb in California, on September 5, 1995 -
Google is lauched
Today google is the leading search engine in the world and it also wons several other sites like youtube but Google began in as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. -
facebook is lauched
Mark Zuckerberg created facebook while he was in college, and by the time he was 18 he was getting offers from big computer companies such as microsoft who now own some part of the social networking sites -
flickr is launched
Flickr is an image hosting website, which was created back in 2004 by Ludicorp in 2004, the site is own by yahoo. -
Youtube is launched
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created former PayPal employees in. youtube allows users to upload videos and there is a comment section. youtube had problems with copyright issue since the site was created back in February 2005. Youtube is now own by Google despite having video sharing website of their own. -
Twitter is launched
Twitter is online social networking site which allows users to post anything but the drawback to this site is that the limit is 150 characters.
