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Sputnik is launched and the United States Department of defense creates the Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA developed new technology for the military.
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The paper, A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect is published by George Engelbart.
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New information network so that the U,S could successfully communicate after a nuclear war.
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First operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global internet.
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ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email
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Comet is the first commercial email software
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Near Menlo Park, California SRI scientists demonstrate that a TCP (transmission control protocol) will successfully support seamless end to end transmission over mobile radio.
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Al Gore coins the term for the Internet “The Information Superhighway.”
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Tim Berners-Lee coins the name "World Wide Web."
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SLAC becomes the first web server on the internet
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The internet takes off as part of the worlds fastest growing growing information network
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Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more.
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The independent programming language, JAVA, is created by Jim Gosling at Sun Microsystems.
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In 1997, there are 1 million domain registrants on the Internet.
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The term "weblog" is coined, and later shortened to "blog"
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Lucent Technology (a spin-off of AT&T) develops the first telephony system. The telephony system allows users to make phone calls over the Internet. Ironically, this led to the eventual demise of the AT&T phone network.
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There are now 3 million domain registrants on the Internet. The number of Web pages on the Internet is 300 million and growing by over 1.5 million per day.
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Google is invented in Menlo Park, California.
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In 1999, the internet has been around for 30 years!
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The Internet economy is responsible for over 2.3 million jobs and over $507 billion in revenue.
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A lot of people are using the internet now, and going out to buy computers of their own.
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Wikipedia is launched.
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A lot of people are using the internet for many different reasons! People love that they can do pretty much everything on their computer now.
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Facebook is formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Youtube is launched and people begin to stream videos online and publish their own much easier than they used to.
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Twitter is founded in San Francisco, California.
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Internet World Stats counts over 1.6 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2009.
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The internet celebrates its 40th birthday!
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Twitter and Facebook are the primary means of communication for the Middle East revolts.
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People are starting to make their own domain names, which brings the number of domain names up to 5 million!
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Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/Protect IP Act (PIPA) and to maintain Internet freedom.
