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J. C, R, Licklider came up with the idea of an "intergalactic network", consisting of decentralized units of data (According to Tata, this idea sprung from the fear of missile attacks - they were in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis)
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by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
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Ethernet: coaxial cables that transmit information quickly; their development enhanced the performance of Local Area Networks.
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By the beginning of that year, every machine connected to ARPANET required a Transmission Control Protocol and an Internet Protocol: this became the crucial aspect of internet
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the Internet Engineering Task Force published Dr. Jon Postel's idea of using .com, .org, .edu.
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The National Science Foundation made TCPs and IPs a requirement for the entire network; academic research needed its own Wide Area Network outside government funding,
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CompuServe released Graphics Interchange Format. This allowed for people to compress and better exchange graphic images, but it also brought up another issue: that of copyrighted material.
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Netom was the first ISP established, but it was not accessible to the public.
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A competitor of Netcom, The World launched its own ISP and decided to go public as the first commercial dial-up internet. After the World, other companies such as Panix also popped up.
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by Corporation of Education and Research Network
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developed by the University of Illinois, NCSA and Mark Andreessen.
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overwhelmed by clients, the NSA decided to limit access to internet by imposing the idea of "buying a place online", a domain, on all clients, except .govs and .edus.
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Sean Fanning released Napster, a music-downloading website which was prosecuted by copyright infringement. This event brought up the issue of intellectual property once again.
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An economic crisis surfaced after people began buying stocks of online companies (that did not profit as much as they were worth, leading to a bubble burst).
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Apple launched the iTunes store, which only had 20000 songs at the time, but in less than 24 hours sold a 250,000 songs.
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following the cloud computing model of Apple's iTunes, Google launched Gmail.
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Smart Phone data exceeded an exabyte (A billion gigabytes).
