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ARPA created a computer research department IPTO-devising a way to share information between ARPA's computer
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Packet Switching was made by IPTO to transmit info over telephone lines.
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Leonard Kleinrock installed the first computer processor capable of handling digital package switch data.
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23 host computers at 15 different institutions were part of the ARPANet
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ARPANet researchers made a computer program where people could send brief messages to each other across the network-beginning of electronic email.
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Researchers at BNN and Stanford designed a way to ling networks together.
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ARPANet began using TCP/IP. The internet became a common way to refer to as the supernetwork.
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Tim Berner's Lee a computer programmer at CERN invented World Wide Web allowing the internet to display photographs, videos, and sound.
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A search program called Gopher, became available to public. Allowing people to use a menu-like system to find what they
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Brewster Khale, a computer researcher at Thinking Machones Corporation invented Wide Area Information Servers System. Permitted computers to search for files based on actual content.
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Marc Anderson and Eric Bina, students at University of Illinois National Center for supercomputing Applications at Urban-Champaign, developed a browsing program that made it much easier for people to access the world wide web.
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Andreessen and Jim Clark the founder of a California computer manufacturing company called silicon Graphics, formed Mosaic Communcations Corporation.
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The Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, released its web browser called Internet Explorer
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More than half of the personal computers in the United States used Internet Explorer.
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The web had expanded to include more than 36 million sites, with thousands more added.