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USSR launches Sputnik into space and, with it, global communications.
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Bell Labs researchers invent the modem, which leads to communication between computers.
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ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link.
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The first data packets were sent between networked computers on October 29th by Charley Kline at UCLA.
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The first email arrives in Germany from the U.S. on August 3, 1984.
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Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau helps Berners-Lee author a proposal for funding.
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Mark Andreessen and Eric Bina create the Mosaic browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),
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Amazon is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States
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Craig Newmark founds Craigslist, which is one of the most widely used websites on the Internet.
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Ebay is an american multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer to consumer & business to consumer sales services via Internet.
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On September 4, Google files for incorporation in California.
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Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.
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Facebook is an online social networking service. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg.
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YouTube is a video-sharing website. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005
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SoundCloud is a Swedish online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds.
