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The government funded computer network ARPANET was installed in UCLA, the first computer network created.
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The first ARPANET host-to-host protocol was created by the Network Working Group and was called the Network Control Protocol (NCP).
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Ray Tomlinson wrote a program to allow people to send electroinc mail through ARPANET.
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Bob Metcalfe created Ethernet while working at Xerox PARC.
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Harvard Students Paul Allen and Bill Gates put together one of the first personal computer kits under the company MITS.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen start up the company Micro-soft
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Apple was founded by Steve Job, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, CA.
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IBM launched their first successful personal computer, the IBM 5150.
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Tim Berner-Lee created the World Wide Web which allowed users to use the Internet as a web of information, not just to send files.
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Students of the University of Illinois created the first web browser and called it Mosaic, eventually developing into Netscape Naviagtor.
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Google was founded by Larry page and Sergey Brin in California.
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Youtube was started up by Chad Hurley, Steve Chan, and Jawed Karim.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt reintroduced the term "cloud computing" in an industry conference.
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The Prism Program is created by the NSA and used as a tool to collect private electronic data from major internet services.
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The first Instagram post was posted by Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom.
