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Telegraph
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First effective under water internet cable
First cables reaches across the Atlantic -
Telephone
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First Computer
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ARPA
The Advanced Research Projects Agency, renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1972 -
Email
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ARPANET
A network of mainframe computers at major universities, was created -
USENET
Users could put articles or post to a newsletter -
Started seeing personal computers
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Fiber optic cables were developed
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How old is the Internet?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of the World Wide Web on March 12, 1989, making it 25 years old -
Tim's Beginning of the "World Wide Web"
The web was never an official CERN project but, Tim found time to work on it using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products.
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Trademark
The phrase "World Wide Web" was trademarked -
First Social Network
Six Degrees was the first modern social network -
Napster/Blogger
LiVEJOURNAL was a network built around constantly updated blogs. -
Wikipedia
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Linkedin
One of the first mainstream social networks devoted to business -
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Social Media Sites Created
Flicker, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, Spotify, Google Buzz, Instagram, Pinterest ect. -
Importance of Submarine Cables
Overseas satellite links accounted for only 1 percent of international traffic, while the remaining 99 percent was carried by undersea cable -
Under Water Cable Success
Operators had "successfully demonstrated long-term, error-free transmission at 100 Gbps across Atlantic Ocean" routes of up to 6,000 km -
Today
Over 75 percent of the world uses the internet daily
