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Communication with another computer at MIT through a system called "Packet Switching."
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4 Universities in the United States funded by the United States Government developed the first online computer sharing messaging system between multiple computers. University of Utah, UCLA, Stanford, and UC Santa Barbara.
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Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn (Referred to as the Fathers of the Internet) create "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection." Stanford University kept every computer's address on file at this time.
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(TCP) Transmission Control Protocol and (IP) Internet Protocol.
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Domain Name System (DNS) directs web traffic and Internet searches. Websites will now end in the familiar, .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int
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Phone Lines were used to access the Internet because they were already stretched across the Nation. This is where that classic computer screeching sound comes from.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. HTTP is used to link websites to other websites to more quickly navigate through the Internet. The World Wide Web (WWW) is commonly used after HTTP in order to search the Internet files through the public "World Wide Web."
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United Nations declare that Internet access is a "Human Right."
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Six Degrees was a social networking site obtaining 1million members in 1997. This website allowed users to create profiles, connect with family and friends, and be apart of "social-circles."
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Another social media site created by Peter Chin. This was a networking service website that allowed members to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.
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LinkedIn was developed as a networking business platform. Here, users can post their resume, look up contacts at specific companies, and share information about their own company. To this day this website is used primarily for business networking purposes only.
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Facebook launched in 2004 and was created by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook began as a Harvard University Student Data Base. This expanded to other colleges and was used as a networking platform and personal information sharing for University students nationwide.
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Youtube is a platform created that allows users to upload and share videos publicly.
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Twitter is born! A social media platform that limits what people can say to 140 total characters. This keeps comments or "tweets" direct and to the point. Twitter uses a hyperlink platform in the form of # to group related conversations and posts together.
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Myspace becomes the most popular social media website in the US. Little did they know, Facebook opens up access to the public and develops a more preferred user platform.
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Pinterest and Instagram are launched and users love it!
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Former CIA employee and NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, leaks to the public that the NSA has been listening and tapping the communications of thousands of people, including U.S. citizens. People question if they truly have privacy.
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Social Media continues to popularize and eventually will reach Billions of members and daily users.
