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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.DARPA-funded projects have provided significant technologies that influenced many non-military fields, such as computer networking and the basis for the modern Internet, and graphical user interfaces in information technology. https://www.darpa.mil/
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The History of Internet from beginning to current
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ARPANET is proposed by J.C.R. Licklider. He has the idea of a "galactic network" of computers that could "talk" to one another.
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Lawrence G. Roberts and Thomas Merrill connect TX-2 in Massachussetes and to the Q-32 in California.
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The first message is successfully sent through ARPANET.
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Ray Tomlinson working for BBN creates the first program devoted to emails. https://www.google.com/gmail/
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ARPA becomes DARPA. Name change adding defense because this was part of the military as well
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Kahn and Cerf to the system as Internet for the first time
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Ethernet is created by Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe.
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AT& T Bell Labs develops UUCP and UNIX . https://www.att.com/
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MCI creates T1 lines to allow for faster transportation of information over the internet.
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ARPANET goes bye bye due to renovation of the government
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The first search engine is launched "Archie"
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The World Wide WEb is released https://www.youtube.com/
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Nokia releases fist phone with internet access
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We now have YouTube, blue tooth, smart phones, and even smart watches. https://www.apple.com/
