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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
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Starting in the late 1970s, newsgroups were message boards for Unix technical issues.
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Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet.
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The International Packet Switched Service (IPSS) was created in 1978 by a collaboration between the United Kingdom's General Post Office, Western Union International and the United States' Tymnet
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The name "TCP/IP" refers to an entire suite of data communications protocols also National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network
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One of the remarkable features of the development of the Internet has been the rate at which new hosts have been connecting to it in 1987 - 10,000 hosts connected
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First commercial dialup
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Search engines
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1 World Wide Web, CERN
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First widely used browser (Mosaic)
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Word ‘Internet’ in daily use
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10 million users
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Dotcom bubble burst
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Web 2.0
