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J.C.R. Licklider from M.I.T. wrote memos about a "Galactic Network" idea. He convinced Lawrence Roberts that it was a workable idea. They worked with Donald Davies and Roger Scantlebury. At first, connections between computers were only for the army in the U.S. and universities.
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First email is sent.
Ray Tomlinson created the first Email addresses - "name@computer" -
Apple computer is founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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Internet Chat is created
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The World Wide Web was proposed at CERN.
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Mosaic, the first browser is released. Growth rate of the Web reaches 350,000% per year.
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Google is born and is worth $2 billion by 2004
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia
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YouTube began
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There are over 1.5 billion Internet users and 1 billion email accounts
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Worldwide internet users breaks 2.4 billion. Nasa's Curiosity Rover checks in from Mars, using Foursquare
