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Arpanet was the first network. It allowed Stanford and UCLA to connect, however it quickly failed.
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Email was developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. He wanted to use the @ symbol to separate usernames from the computer/domain name
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In 1973 Arpanet was able to make its first trans-Atlantic connection with the University College of London
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TCP/IP is what made the internet possible. It allows devices to transfer data via the internet.
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Usenet was created by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis as a way to exchange messages and files using UNIX.
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Software made as a hypertext program. ENQUIRE allowed people to send hyperlinks to other people.
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Arpanet lease ends, making it's users switch to TCP/IP
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DNS automatically turns an IP address into a domain name.
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Arpanet had been limited to only 1000 hosts, but once internet users switched to TCP/IP they was almost 30k hosts
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The Morris worm was the first internet attack to ever happen. It mainly affected Universities in America. It managed to reach over 10% of computers. Although, it did not damage or destroy any files.
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AOL aka America Online was one of the first instant messaging services.
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The World Wide Web (WWW), also known as the web, is what contains websites and webpages.
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The first publicly available website was made by Berners-Lee. It was about the WWW and how to use it.
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Mosaic was one of the first web browsers released in 1993. Despite not being the first web browser Mosaic was considered the first to make the internet accessible to everyone
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The SSL was the first online security feature. It was created to protect online tranactions, but was also used in other applications like email, instant messaging, and voice over IP.
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HoTMaiL (HTML is capitalized) was the first web-based email. HoTMaiL offered freedom from one's internet service provider as you could access it anywhere.
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Google was founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It began as an online search firm and later became one of the biggest internet services.
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3G was the third generation mobile connection technology. 3G focused on creating a standard network connection. This allowed international roaming services to develop.
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The Dotcom Bubble or the internet bubble was a rapidly rising stock market in the US. It was fuelled by internet-based companies. It hit its peak in March 2000, and later crashed in October, 2002
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Digg was originally a popular news website. It's known for heavily influencing the development of Reddit, Miss, and Yahoo!
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In February 2009 Google's email service had crashed for approximately 2.5 hours.
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Google mail services crash once again, this time being down for 36 hours.
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4G, also known as the fourth generation mobile communication technology was released in Norway, and Sweden.
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5G was introduced in 2019. 5G is 100 times faster than 4G.
