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Soviet Union launched the world’s first man made satellite into orbit.
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The UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) put out a press release introducing the public to the Internet.
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The first network switch and the first piece of network equipment called "IMP" (Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA.
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The first data moves from the UCLA host to the switch.
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The first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at UCLA, after the second piece of network equipment was installed at SRI. The connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made, but is also considered the first Internet backbone.
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Considered the official birthday of the Internet.
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Google Goes Live
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Wikipedia Was Launched
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Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook as a Harvard sophomore.
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YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.
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