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Designed for research, education, government organizations and communication
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Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson.
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becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet.
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Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.
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The word “Internet” is used for the first time.
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The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal
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Gopher, which provides point-and-click navigation, is created at the University of Minnesota and named after the school mascot. Gopher becomes the most popular interface for several years.
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Mosaic is developed by Marc Andreeson at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
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Pierre Omidyar launched a site called Auction Web and its first item sold was a book on how to use compters.
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YouTube.com is launched.
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There are more than 92 million websites online
