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On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, an unmanned satellite. The launch frightened the world and ignited the thought and implementation of global communication.
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The United States created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to Sputnik. The agency underwrote development for the precursor of the Internet, ARPANET. This consisted of four university computers across the US to be interconnected to share data and scientific findings. ARPANET sent information in small units called packets that were sent on specific routes and reconstructed at their end destination.
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Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation developed the concept of distributed adaptive message block switching while performing research for the US Air Force. The work was primarily focused on the use of a decentralized network with multiple pathways between two points, dividing messages into message blocks and delivery of the messages by store and forward switching.
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While serving as the ARPA director, Charles Herzfield approved funding to develop a networking experiment that would create inter-connectivity between four universities funded by the agency. The advancement would be known as the ARPANET, the first packet network.
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The physical Interface Message Processor (IMP) connects the University of California at Los Angeles, SRI (Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Utah.
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Ray Tomlinson invents the email program to send messages across a network. The "@" was chosen to separate local from global emails.
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At CERN, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.
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AOL launches their instant messaging system and invites users with their greeting, "You've got mail!"
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In response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, progressive policy advocacy goup formed MoveOn.org as a place to support education and advocacy on policy issues.
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Napster was originally founded as a pioneer software of peer-to-peer file sharing.
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Blog-publishing service that allows multiple individuals to post individual thoughts with time-stamped entries.
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Introduction of the American travel website that allows users to book hotels and read travel reviews.
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Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that allows users to add information.
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Discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to the user. Also allows users to rate web pages, photos and videos based on their personal interests.
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LinkedIn is a business social networking platform that allows employees and networks to connect.
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Meetup allows online group meetings to happen around the world.
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Social networking site that allows users to post to their personal network of friends blogs, photos, music and videos.
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Skype was created as an instant message app to allow users to chat via text or video. Skype allows video conference calls to occur across the world.
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Facebook is a for-profit corporation and online social networking service that allows individuals to create their own profile.
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Users can read reviews of restaurants, venues and make reservations all on the new Yelp app.
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Web community where individuals can share professional and home videos to the public realm. `
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The candid discussion board aggregates American social news and creates a platform for members to submit content and comments to other posts.
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Twitter feeds allow users to view online news and engage in social networking activities.
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Introduction of an app that allows users with access to the Internet to perform voice calls, text messaging, GIF sending and video messages to other smartphones around the world.
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The ultimate catalog of ideas allows users to share interests, pictures and crafts to others on the world wide web.
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The multimedia application allows users to send short pictures to other users, share news and post to stories.
