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internet
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DARPA or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is an agency responsible for the development of emerging technologies. https://www.darpa.mil/
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Two computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate with one another using packet-switching technology.
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Global networking becomes a reality as the University College of London and Royal Radar Establishment connect to ARPANET. The term Internet is born.
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The first Internet Service Provider is born with the introduction of a commercial version of ARPANET, known as Telenet.
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USENET forms to host news and discussion groups.
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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) emerge as the protocol for ARPANET. https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html
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DNS establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites.
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Symbolics.com, the website for Symbolics Computer Corp. in Massachusetts, becomes the first registered domain. https://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-first-domain-name-ever-registed-2011-5
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CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.
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Amazon.com, Craigslist and eBay go live. The original NSFNET backbone is decommissioned as the Internet’s transformation to a commercial enterprise is largely completed.
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Yahoo! is created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, two electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University.
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The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet.
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Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins.
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YouTube.com launches. The social news site Reddit is also founded.
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Twitter launches. The company's founder, Jack Dorsey, sends out the very first tweet: "just setting up my twttr."
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