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USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency the following year, within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military.
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1971 email was developed by Ray Tomlinson made decision to use the “@” symbol
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. First basic e-mail programs written by Ray Tomlinson
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. First international connections to University College of London (England) and (Norway).
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. Tim Berners-Lee writes program called "Enquire Within," dedicated to the World Wide Web.
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. IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
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10,000 hosts on the internet and 25 million PCs sold in the US
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. ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web and opens it to the public
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Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for the mailing company Amazon.
. Java's first public demonstration of the internet improvements. -
Windows 95 released to the public
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Wikipedia is launched one of the websites that paves the way for collective web content generation/social media.
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Myspace opens up .it later grew to be the most popular social network at one time.
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The biggest innovation of 2007 was the iPhone which was responsible for renewed interest in the mobile web applications and design.
