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The Cold War began, as did technology.
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The USSR launched an artificial satellite into orbit.
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U.S Department of Defense founded the ARPA.
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The ARPA created the IPTO, which was a research department.
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Joseph Licklider left the ARPA. Licklider was an american psychologist and a computer scientist.
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IPTO started using "packet switching."
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Leonard Kleinrock, who was an ARPA contractor from UCLA, installed the first computer processor capable of handling digital packet-switched data.
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UCLA computer sent its first packet of data over a telephone line. This began ARPANet.
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23 host computers at 15 different institutions were a part of the ARPANet. ARPANet stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
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ARPANet researchers developed a new computer program that enabled people to send brief messages to each other across the network.
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Telenet began service in seven different US cities.
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Researchers at BBN and Stanford designed a way to link all the networks to one another.
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The ARPANet began using TCP and others followed.
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The supernet had now became known as "The Internet"
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Gopher, the search engine, became available to the public.
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Computer researcher, Brewster Kahle, invented the WAIS system. (Wide Area Information Servers system)
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"HTML" had been used to create over 50 websites on the internet.
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Mosaic Communications Corp. launched a communication web browser program: Mosaic Netscape.
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Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Washington) released the Internet Explorer.
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America Online Inc. purchased Netscape.
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Over half of the personal computers in Ameica used Internet Explorer. One third used Netscape Navigator.
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The Web expanded to over 36 million sites.
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A new computer language, "XML," was invented.