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ARPA goes online in December,connecting to 4 universities.
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Introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist, created that @ symbol.
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Queen Elizabeth sent her first email.
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The word internet is used for the first time.
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The DNS (Domain Name System) started
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In 1988, The first virus ocurred and was called Intenet Worm and shut down about 10% of all internet servers.
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Peter Deustch in McGill University in Montreal who tried to index the internet.
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The White House made their own website call www.whitehouse.gov
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In 1996, aproximately 45 million people are using the internet, and about 30 million are from America.
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Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts
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A college student named Shawn Fanning created Napster, which was a website that allows users to swap music.
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In 2001, it is reported that about 9.8 billion electronic messages are sent daily
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in 2005, you tube is created and now one of the most popular websites.
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There are more than 92 million websites online
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In a move to challenge Google's dominance of search and advertising on the Internet, software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
