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BBN Technologies awarded the contract to build the network.
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The the first message is sent using the arpanet
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ARPAnet Goes online
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Email Invented
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet
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Queen Elizabeth sends her first email.
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The word “Internet” is starting to be used
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Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.
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A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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Tim Berners-Lee develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web.
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The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.
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Sun Microsystems releases the Internet programming language called Java.
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Approximately 45 million people are using the Internet. 43.2 million (44%) U.S. households own a personal computer, and 14 million of them are online.
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Google opens its first office, in California.
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“E-commerce” becomes the new buzzword as Internet shopping rapidly spreads. The number of Internet users worldwide reaches 150 million by the beginning of 1999.
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To the chagrin of the Internet population, deviant computer programmers begin designing and circulating viruses with greater frequency. Millennium Bug