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Thge U.S. Government creates the Advanced Researhc Projects Agency (ARPA)/. creates a network that will connect the government throughout the country in case of an attack.
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Ray tomlinson, a cambridge computer scientist creates electronic mail (E-mail)
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Transmission control protocol/internet protocol is designed and becomes a standard when communicating with computers over the internet
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Jimmy carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan their campaign trail. Queen elizabeth becomes the first country leader to send an email
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The word "interent" is used for the first time.
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Domain Name System (DNS) is made with the suffixes .com, .org, and .edu Author william Gibson also coins the term cyberspace.
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Quantam Computer Services changes its name to America Online launches. it offers email, e-bulletin boards and more information.
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an internet virus called "The Worm" shuts down about 10% of the worlds internet
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world.std.com debuts and is the first to offer dial up internet service to american civilians
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Peter Duetsch Creates Archie, an index of FTP sites
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The University of minnesota creates Gopher, another attempt to index the interent that allows for point and click navigation
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Marc Andreeson creates mosaic at the National Center For SuperComputing Applications (NCSA) it house 1% of the worlds internet traffic and becomas the dominant domain for the internet
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The whitehouse launches its website www.whitehouse.gov
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CompuServe, America Online, and prodigy all start providing dial-up internet access
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45 million people are using the internet with 30million of those people being in North America
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All internet Traffic records are broken when NASA posts images taken by pathfinder
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google opens its first office in california
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Shawn fanning invents Napster, which lets people swap music over the interent
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Miscreant computer Programmers create the "LoveBug" and "stages" viruses that self replicate themselves by sending themselves to email addresses in a computers address book
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Napster is almost shut down when there is an appeal that they are violting copyright laws
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internet users download 2.6 billion illegal music files each month
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MyDoom infects about every 1 in 12 emails
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youtube is launched
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There are more than 96 million internet sites online
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legal music downloads amount to about 6.7 million per week
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microsoft offers to buy yahoo for 44.6 billion to challenge googles internet dominance
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as of january 2002 58.5% of America uses the internet