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Advanced Research Projects Agency goes online in December. Connecting four universities together, Designed for research, education and goverment organizations.
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In 1972 Ray Tomlinson used the @ symbol to distinguish the the senders name and the networks name.
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In 1976, President Jimmy carter and running mate Walter Mondale used the emails to create a campaign. also queen elizabeth sends her first email. The first state leaders to do so.
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For the first time the word internet was said and made.
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The Domain name system establish the extensions ".com .edu and .org" also writer william gibson coins "cyberpace"
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In 1988, the first Virus was provided into the Internet world, shuting down 10% of the internet servers.
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The whitie house made their own website "Whitehouse.gov:"also they made a new term name spamming for the over sending of emails.
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In 1996, they found out that about 45 million of people were using the internet. roughly more than 30 million of those users where from North America.
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in 1998 the most popular search engine was made. Googles first office was made.
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in 2000 two more virusus were created "love bugs" and "Stages" this virusus would be send to emails of the internet users. Also America Online buys Time Warner for 16$ Billion the biggest merger of all time.
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As of january of 2002, 58.5% of the US population(164.14 million people) uses the internet also apple itunes was being introuce.
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in 2005 one of the most popular websites was made "Youtube.com"
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on the year 2007, the music and video game industry was increasing super fast. the video game world off warcraft was made,
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their was a major protest online for taking websites down. But many industries fear that their websites were going to shut down.