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in 1957, the Soviet Union launched an artificial satillite which made the U.S Department of Defense to work hard to do intense research in missile technology- this research lead to the development of the internet.
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ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Angency) created a department called IIPTO (Information Processing Technologies Office).
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Leonard Kleinrock, a scientist at the University of California applied the first computor processor capable of handling a digital packet switched data on a UCLA host computor.
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Researchers at BBN and Stanford designed a way to link networks to each other called an Internetwork (Internet) after creating a software called Transmissiion Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
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Berners Lee designed the web to encourage scientists to present multimedia info over the Internet, and created HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
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A program called Gopher developed at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, was finally available to the public. It organized information on the Interned for related topics.
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Brewster Kahle invented the Wide Area Info Servers (WAIS) system. It permitted computer users to search files based on content.
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By this time, HTML was used to create about 50 sites on the Worl Wide Web.
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Marc Anderson and Eric Bina developed browsing progtams that made it easier for people to het to the WWW, and created Mosaic, a way to display images directly on a web page.
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By this time, NCSA made Mosaic have free access, and tens of thousands of people downloaded copies of their own.
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Mosaic Communications launched a commercial Web browser called Mosaic Netscape, and the next month, the company changed their name to Netscape Communications Coorperation and the program's to Netscape Navigator.
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The Microsoft Coorperation released its own Web brownser called Internet explorer and became the worlds most popular explorer.
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America Online Inc. purchased Netscape.
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Over half of personal computers in the United States used Internet Explorer, and a third used Netscape Navigator.
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By this time, the Web expanced to more than 36 million sites, and thousands more added every single day.