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ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems. Read more: Internet Timeline — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193167.html#ixzz1kzemJYz2 -
Who was the first to use the Internet?
Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANet as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute on Oct 29, 1969. The system crashed as he reached the G in LOGIN! -
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The history of the Internet
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The beggining of the Email
Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address. -
"Internet"
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VIRUS
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. -
Tim Berners-Lee
The World (world.std.com) debuts as the first provider of dial-up Internet access for consumers.Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via hyperlinks (specially programmed words, phrases, buttons, or graphics). Unlike other Internet protoco -
The creation of the internet Index
The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal, who devises Archie, an archive of FTP sites. -
Googles Beggining
1998 Google opens its first office, in California -
Wikipedia
Napster is dealt a potentially fatal blow when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rules that the company is violating copyright laws and orders it to stop distributing copyrighted music. The file-swapping company says it is developing a subscription-based service.
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Facebook
Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004.
