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On February 15, 1946 the first computer was created. ENIAC was the first electric general purpose computer.Through programing it was able ot solve a large number of numerical problems.
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On October 4, 1957 the Sputnik 1 was launched into orbit. The Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. This was created by the Russians during cold war and pushed America to do the same.
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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. and was developed in 1963. This allowed computers to understand characters such as 'a' and '@' etc.
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Arpanet stands for The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network and was created on October 29 1969.It implemented the protocol suite TCP/IP.
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In 1985, Dr. Stephen Wolff leads the development of NSFNET. This is the first U.S. open computer network supporting research and higher education.
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On November 2, 1988 Robert Tappan Morris created the internet worm. An internet worm is a program that spreads across the internet by replicating itself on computers via their network connections (Mike Barwise)
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In 1989 the World Wide Web was created. WWW is an open source inforamtion space web resources are identified by URLs.
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In 1991 the first web page was created. It looks super sketchy.
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On January 23, 1993 Mosaic was created. It is currently discontinued. It was created by MCSA. The platforms were AmigaOS, Mac OS, Unix, and Windows
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On March 2, 1995 Yahoo was founded. Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered. It is known for its search engine Yahoo.
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On September 4, 1998 Google was founded. Google is now an American multinational technology company that specializing in Internet-related services.
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The first full internet service on mobile phones was introduced by NTT DoCoMo in Japan in 1999.
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On February 4, 2000 Nii Quaynor brought Internet to Africa. Nii Quaynor is also known as the African father of the Internet.
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Wikipedia was ceated on January 21, 2001. Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
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On February 4, 2004 Facebook was created. Facebookis an online social networking service.
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The internet Hall of Fame was created in 2012. The internet Hall of Fame is an honorary lifetime achievement award administered by the Internet Society.
