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The satellite was named Sputnik and it didnt do much but float around space.
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his labs creates the modem, which changes digital signal to electrical signal and back, allowing communication between computers.
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The United States government creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in response to Sputnik launch.
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he created this concept in his MIT doctoral thesis about queueing theory
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Licklider writes memos about his Intergalactic Network idea of networked computers. Also he becomes the first head of the computer research program at ARPA.
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The very first univeral standard for computers which was developed by a joint-government comittee.
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Paul Baran creates a message blocks in the U.S., while Donald Watts Davies simultaneously creates a similar technology called packet-switching. The technology completely changes data communications.
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ARPA sponsors study on "cooperative network of time-sharing computers."
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Lawrence Roberts and Thomas Marill get a contract from ARPA to create the first wide-area network (WAN) connection for long distant dial-up between a TX-2 computer in Massachusetts and a Q-32 computer in California. The system offers the most promising model for communication between computers.
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Robert Taylor, the director of the ARPA's computer program, initiates the ARPAnet project, the foundation for today’s Internet.
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Building on the 1965 “Cooperative Network of Time-sharing Computers”,Lawrence Roberts comes to ARPA to help create the networking experiment and develop the first ARPAnet plan.
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Roberts directs ARPAnet design discussions and publishes first ARPAnet design paper: "Multiple Computer Networks and Intercomputer Communication." Clark suggests the network is managed by interconnected ‘Interface Message Processors’ in front of the major computers. Called IMPs, they evolve into today’s routers.
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Donald Watts Davies publishes his paper on “packet-switching,” the term he coins.
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creates a "Mother of All Demos" presentaions to introduce hypertexting and collaborative computing for the first time.
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Dr. David Clark starts Internet protocols for the Multics systems, the Xerox PARC ALTO and the IBM PC
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Ray Tomlinson, invents the email program to send messages across a distributed network.
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The first email arrives in Germany from the U.S. on August 3, 1984.
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The World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet.
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The First blog was created and was introduced to the world
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