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Telegraph
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Idea
J. C. R. Licklider proposes a network of computers that connect and communicate with each other. The visionaries are now focussing their resources toward making this connection happen. Licklider and others come up with the idea of packet switching, sending small packets of information between computers to communicate.
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First contact
Lawrence Roberts connects two computers in California and Massachusetts by dial up phone lines.
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Birth of the Internet
The internet as we know it is first used to connect 4 computers between UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, and te University of Utah. They sent simple packets of data used for text between computers.
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Emergence of Email
Email is invented and adapted for the early internet. People with addresses are now able to communicate electronically.
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Ethernet
The ethernet port is invented by Bob Metacalfe, and though a rather archaic way of accessing the internet, it is still used today in computers without wifi adapters.
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NSFNet
The National Science Foundation funds a network that is used as the backbone of the internet today for individual uses.
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A good GUI is made
The University of Minnesota creates the first easy way to surf through the files of the internet, called the gopher. It made finding information on the internet much easier.
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Hyperlinks
Hypertext, which allows the user to move between web pages and are the basis for the internet, is invented by CERN. Tis would eventually turn into te World Wide Web.
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Progress
Microsoft 95, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Ebay, and Internet Explorer are lauched. Sun Microsystems, which is responsible with the immensely popular coding language Java, is also created.
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Napster
Music sharing site Napster is launched. Online piracy now becomes a common problem.
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Facebook
Facebook, one of the most used websites of the modern day, is created. This would also be the first time most people use social networking to communicate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
