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On October 4, 1957, the Sputnik 1 was launched form the USSR into this space. This caused the the USA to fear that Russia was more advanced then them, which sparked the advance of technology.
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Queen Elizabeth 2nd sends out a email from the Royal Signals.
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It starts as CERN which is European organization for nuclear research.
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Tim Berners-Lee makes the worlds first ever web browser, it was called the World Wide Web (WWW).
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Tim Berners-Lee posted the first photo of the band “Les Horribles Cernettes,” online, meanwhile the term "surfing the web" becomes a popular
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The first known thing bought online was for Pizza Hut, which was a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms and extra cheese.
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A website named Yahoo was created at Stanford by 2 students named Jerry Yang and David Filo.
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Jimmy Wales launched Wikipedia and within the first year, over 20,000 entries were recorded.
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Microsoft a online gaming service called "Xbox Live", but people didn't like the idea because of how uncommon the broad band connections were then.
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YouTube was created on Valentines day, the first video was made by one of the founders Jawed Karim, he was talking about how cool elephants were and why.
