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It was connected to an IBM 360/75. (Pic: http://econ.ucsb.edu/~harmon/)
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Connected to DEC PDP-10. (Pic: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/still-image/DEC/PDP-10/)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4' >History of the Internet</a> For example SNDMSG and READMAIL and "@" sign chosen for the "at" meaning. (Pic: http://www.webblog360.com/2011/12/great-gods-of-the-e-world
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It details the design of TCP.
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It is a predecessor to World Wide Web. (Pic: http://www.icons-land.com/productvistastyleemoticons.php)
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IBM creates the very first Personal Computer and Microsoft creates DOS. (Pic: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/5817049/Microsoft-is-launching-a-music-streaming-service-this-month.html)
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Designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge. The endings that were created were " .edu, .com, .gov, .org, .int, and .net created. (Pic: http://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/networking/guide/netdns.html)
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On January 24th, Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyWGV1Tf_o > Fact #639 First Registered Domain</a>The first registered domain was "symbolics.com". (Pic: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/03/07/dot-com-time-capsule-the-oldest-domains/)
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The first anti-virus software is available for free.( Pic: http://www.dot-ie.com/2011/04/mcafee-secure-or-not-secure/)
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Time Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and ARPANET ends. (Pic: http://www.domain2catch.net/)
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Marc Andreesen develops the Mosaic Web browser at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. (Pic: http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html)
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Microsoft licenses technology from Spyglass to create Web browser for Windows 95. (Pic: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win95)
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Domain name tv.com was sold to CNET for $15,000. The browser wars begun and Netscape and Microsoft were the two biggest players. (Pic: http://moteurs-de-recherches-alternatifs.blogspot.com/2009/04/browser-wars-internet-explorer-versus.html)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Ak9Kge-NM >Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin on Bing and Yahoo</a> (Pic: http://raeleigh.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/google/)
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Netscape and Microsoft share almost 100% of the browser market.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMSnmAcG1XM >CBL Raises Awareness of Code Red Worm</a>These two viruses infiltrated thousands of web servers and e-mail accounts causing a spike in Internet bandwidth usage and security breaches.
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This worm caused one of the most fastest and largest DDoS attacks ever, which only took 10 minutes to spread worldwide.
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The RIAA sues 261 individuals for allegedly distributing copyright music files over peer-to-peer networks.
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A massive DDOS assault on Blue Security, an anti-spam company, is redirected by Blue Security staff to their Movable Type-hosted blog. The result is that the DDOS instead knocks out all access to over 1.8 million active blogs.
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(Some stats say over 100 million.
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Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.
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Microsoft launches its various consumer versions of Microsoft Vista.
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Apple reaches more than 1 billion ITunes downloads.
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Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand," and also is the most visited Web site.
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The company that began with a search engine now also dominates online advertising and has a leading presence in online mapping, webmail and online document collaboration.
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Ashton Kutcher becomes the first person on Twitter to have a million followers subscribing to his 'tweets'.
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Facebook announces it has 400 million active members. That's larger than the population of the US and UK combined.
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