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  Scientists wanted a new way to communicate information with each other
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  The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford in 1981
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  researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.
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  virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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  Netflix is an American multinational provider of on-demand Internet streaming media
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  Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products.
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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 with his Harvard College roommates
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  YouTube is a video-sharing website. The service was created by three former PayPal employees
