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First paper on packet switching theory published
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Lawrence G Roberts and Thomas Merrill connected a computer is Massachusetts to a computer in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first wide area computer network
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Lawrence G. Roberts developed the concepts of computer networking and the ARPANET Link text
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ARPANET successfully runs on packet switching and connects 4 nodes, starting the Internet
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S. Crocker at UCLA established Request for Comments
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Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANET trying to connect to Stanford Research Institute Link text
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E-mail was created by Ray Tomlinson at BBN and he developed the @ symbol to link username and address. Link text
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The first modern email program was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of Southern California. The biggest technological advance this program made was the addition of “Reply” and “Forward” functionality. Link text
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Usenet newsgroup sites are built by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis creating the first virtual communities
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Arpanet computers switch over to TCP/IP developed by Vinton Cerf at Stanford and Bob Kahn at DARPA
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Tim Berners Lee at CERN proposed the World Wide Web protocol, based on the hypertext system.
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Tim Berners Lee develops the first webpage created for World Wide Web.
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NCSA released the free browser Mosaic to the public.
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Commercialization of the internet appeared and secure sockets layer encryption was developed by Netscape to make online transactions safer
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JavaScript deployed by Brendan Eich Netscape
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Microsoft releases Windows 98 to the public
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Google went live to the public.
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch Wikipedia
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VoIP is released to the public through Skype
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Myspace is the first popular social network deployed
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