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A scale model of the UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was delivered to the Census Bureau.
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A MIT computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider came up with the idea for a global computer network. His idea was the shared with the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) where they funded his idea. -
A operating system designed to influence the Linux and FreeBSD (the operating systems most popular in today’s web servers/web hosting services).
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Arpanet was the first real network to run on packet switching technology. Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time.
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Email was developed by Ray Tomlinson. He made the “@” symbol to separate the user name from the computer name.
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Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf collaborate to develop a protocol for linking multiple networks together. This was named the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). This protocol was a technology that linked multiple networks together and if one network was to crash, the others won't collapse. -
The first PC modem was developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington.
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Dave Farber of the University of Delaware reveals a project to build an inexpensive network using dial-up phone lines. In 1982, the PhoneNet system is established and is connected to ARPANET and the first commercial network, Telenet. This broadens access to the internet and allows for email communication between multiple nations of the world. -
Before this computer networks did not have a standard way of communication with each other. A new communications protocol was created. It was called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). This allowed different kinds of computers on different networks to "talk" to each other.
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The first domain was registered which was symbolics.com, a domain belonging to a computer manufacturer. -
By 1987 there was almost 30,000 hosts on the Internet. The original Arpanet protocol had been limited to 1,000 hosts, but with the TCP/IP standard a larger number of hosts was possible.
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ARPANET is decommissioned. Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN develop hypertext markup language (HTML) and the uniform resource locator (URL).
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The first web page was created with the purpose to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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The webcam was created at Cambridge University in the computer lab. Its purpose was to monitor a coffee maker so that lab users avoided wasted trips to an empty coffee pot. -
Microsoft launched Windows 95, Amazon, Yahoo and eBay. Also, the Internet Explorer and Java where created allowing animation on websites and creating new internet activity. -
Congress passed the Communications Decency Act to fight the rise in objectionable material on the internet. John Perry Barlow called it "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace." -
Google was founded. -
Wikipedia was created as a way for collective web content generation/social media.
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YouTube launched bringing free online video hosting and sharing to everyone. -
Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features at the Macworld convention in San Francisco.