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Leonard Kleinrock is rewarded as the person who developed the internet when he first wrote ARPANET (predecessor of the internet)
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2 computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate wit hone another using packet-switching technology
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Beranek and Newman, Inc. unveils the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications.
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Precursor to the internet was jump started in the early days of computing history, with the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
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On October 29, UCLA's Network Measurement Center, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. first message was "LO"
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National Science Foundations NSFNET goes online to connected supercomputer centers at 56,000 bits per second - the speed of a typical dial-up computer motem
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Netscape Communications is born. Microsoft creates web browser for Windows 95.
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A 3D animation dubbed "The Dancing Baby" becomes one of the first viral videos
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The Google Search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the internet
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Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins.
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51% of U.S. adults report that they bank online, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center
