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Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Fear in the U.S. due to the potential of attacks from the atmosphere.
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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) founded by U.S. Department of Defense for communications to be shared between computers.
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Joseph Licklider writes about a possible sweb of interconnected computers constantly sharing information.
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Joseph Licklider, author of "Galactic Network," becomes the first head of IPTO.
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IPTO, a computer researching department, is founded.
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A new method using a computer network that shares information over telephone lines is developed by IPTO.
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Leonard Kleinrock installs the first computer able to handle packet switched data on a host computer.
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Two more computers were added to the ARPANet.
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23 host computers at 15 different places had joined ARPANet.
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A public version of ARPANet, available in 7 cities in the U.S.
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Researchers at places such as BBN and Stanford discovered a way to link all the networks together--called an "internetwork".
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ARPANet was the first to join this network, but other networks were soon to follow. The "internetwork" is nicknamed the "internet".
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Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web, which allows photos, audio, and video to be displayed on a web page.
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A program invented by Marc Andreesson and Eric Bina with the ability to display images directly on a web page, whereas before they had to be viewed in a separate window. Later in 1993, Mosiac would be become available for free, allowing tens of thousands of people to download it.
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Brewster Kahle invents the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS). An early "search engine" such as Google or Bing.
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Marc Andreesson and Jim Clark form Mosiac Communications Corporations. Later in the year, it launches a Web browser called Mosiac Netscape.
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Microsoft Corporation releases Internet Explorer, a web browser.
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By 2002, the web contained over 36 million sites, with even more added every day.