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The Soviet MIR series of computers was created, led by Victor Glushkov. The first small scale computer designed for personal use.
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For the first time, two computers were connected. Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln Labs, Lincoln Labs TX-2 tied to SDC's Q32 talked to each other using packet-switching technology.
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Led by Lawrence Roberts, the project was designed to explore computer resource sharing and packet switched communications
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Fourth node installed at University of Utah, adding to the ones at UCSB, UCLA, and at Stanford’s research institute.
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First basic Email Programs, SNGMSG and READMAIL written by Ray Tomlinson at BBN. The “@” sign was chosen to mean “at”.
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ARPANET becomes international with the linkage of the University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway)
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TCP, transmission control protocol, is outlined in a paper by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf called "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection". Kahn and Cerf started design in 1973, and released their on the ARPNET work in October of 1977.
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Apple is founded by Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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- November 1983. Domain Name System designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge to support the addressing space, creating domain names such as .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int.
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ARPANET is disbanded and replaced by the World Wide Web, created by Tim Berners-Lee creates
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Windows 95 is released by Microsoft
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Domain names start to sell for very high prices, demonstrating the increased power of the interent.
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Netscape and Microsoft own nearly 100 percent of domain names.
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There are now over 96 million websites.
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The FR-1000 is released. It is able to accurately control the rate of every TCP flow, and thus be able to combine data, voice, and video in one network effectively
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