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The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s
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AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM.
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First packet-switching papers ever made
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Leonard Kleinrock releases his paper talking about packetization.
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Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and Tom Marill with a Q-32 at SDC in California.
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Donald Davies coins the word "Packet."
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Merit Network founded
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ARPANET carries its first packets
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Network Information Center (NIC) founded
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Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users.
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The first VoIP call is made.
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A commercial version of ARPANET known as Telenet is introduced and considered by many to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP).
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Apple Computer is founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976
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John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC develop the first worm.
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Computer Science Network (CSNET) founded
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) created
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Domain Name System (DNS) created
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First .COM domain name registered
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Internet Chat was created in 1988
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The first internet browser Mosaic was founded in 1993
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On August 16, 1995 Microsoft introduces and releases Microsoft Internet Explorer.
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Internet weblogs begin to appear.
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On June 30, 2003 the Safari browser is released.
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On November 9, 2004 Mozilla releases the Mozilla Firefox browser.
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On December 11, 2008 the Google Chrome.
