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ARPANET was created by the United States Department of Defense in 1969. It established its first computer-to-computer connection on October 29th of the same year.
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The first email was sent via ARPANET. The email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself.
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The first internet service provider was created in 1974. It was made using a commercial version of ARPANET called Telenet.
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Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. The first Apple computer was created in the same year.
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The NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) was created. It's purpose was to link computers to universities and research agencies.
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Tim Berners-Lee proposed his idea of the World Wide Web to CERN in 1989. He later created the World Wide Web in 1990.
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Mosaic was created on January 23rd, 1993. It was the first web browser and it was created by Marc Andreessen and his team.
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Amazon was created on July 5th, 1994. It was founded by Jeff Bezos.
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Yahoo was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994. It was incorporated on March 2nd, 1995
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Java was started in 1991 by James Gosling and finished in 1996. Java is a computer programming language.
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Google was created on September 4th, 1998. It was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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Facebook was created in February of 2004. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg when he was 19 years old.
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YouTube was created on February 14th, 2005. It was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karin.
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As of 2008, there are 1.5 billion users of the internet worldwide. That's around 1/7 of the world's population.
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As of June 2018, there are over four billion people using the internet. That's over half of the world's population.
