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1957
USSR launches the first satellite To compete against the USSR's success at launching the first satellite, the United States Department of Defense creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. -
1963
A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man’s
Intellect is published by Douglas Engelbart. The work outlines multimedia paradigms to be integrated into the Internet. -
1964
Rand Corporation proposes a new information network so that the United States could successfully communicate after a nuclear war. -
1969
The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. ARPANET is the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet. -
1972
ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email. -
1973
The term “Internet” begins to be used. -
1975
microsoft -
1976
Comet, the first commercial email software, is offered by the Computer
Corporation of America for $40,000. -
1977
Near Menlo Park, California, SRI scientists demonstrate that a TCP
(transmission control protocol) will successfully support seamless end to
end transmission over mobile radio. -
1981
Al Gore coins the term for the Internet “The Information Superhighway.” -
1990
The phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee. -
1991
Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) becomes the first web server on the
Internet. -
1992
Internet registration begins for .com, .net. .org, .edu, and .gov -
1994
yahoo -
1998
google -
2005
YouTube -
2011
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