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Logs show that a host-to-host connection was first successful.
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Ray Tomlinson sent a "test" message to himself. It was the first form of email.
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Over the early periods of the network, it expands from a network with only two points, to a network with many channels serving many hosts.
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The National Science Foundation invests a lot of money and time to develop the internet towards what we know today
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Tim Berners-Lee changed the internet from a point to point system to one that could connect to a "web" of information that was accessible to anyone with internet access.
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In 1991 the National Science Foundation did away with the ban on commercial internet service providers and many providers began service to consumers.
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The web browser Mosaic was launched and experiences exponential growth.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is created to transition the domain name system (DNS) from government control to industry control.