BBN Technologies awarded the contract to build the network.
The the first message is sent using the arpanet
The first message was supposed to be login but the system crashed after LO
ARPAnet Goes online
4 research and development universities connected
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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