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First artificial earth satellite.
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ARPANET commissioned DoD for reseach into networking
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People communicate over a network
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Internet registration begins for .com, .net, .org, .edu and .gov
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Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more
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Google is founded in Menlo Park, California
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The dot-com bubble bursts.
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Wikipedia is launched
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Facebook is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Youtube launches
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Twitter is founded in San Francisco, California
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Internet world stats count over 1.9 billion surfers world wide.
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Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/Protect IP Act (PIPA) and to maintain Internet freedom.
