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Two computers, one at Stanford, one at UCLA, are directly linked via 1200bps phone line.
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Email was first developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.
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Usenet the internet's first public message board, is created by two graduate students.
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The domain name system is established, and the .com era begins. .Gov and .Edu are also invented.
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The first ISP is established as World.std.com, providing internet to the public.
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The world-wide web system is created by CERN.
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Mosaic, the world's first free, public graphical browser, was released in 1993.
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Common industries such as banks, radio stations, and advertisers begin to use the internet for business. One of these startup businesses was Amazon, a popular online store. Another was Ebay, an oline auction house.
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Google, now the most popular search engine on the internet is introduced.