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When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field.
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USSR launches Sputnik the very first satellite into space and, with sets off the race to link the world through global communications.
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Bell Labs produced the first commercial modem.
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Robert Taylor initiates the ARPANET project, the foundation for today's Internet under the Department of Defense
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The physical network is constructed, linking four nodes. University of California at Los Angeles, SRI(in Stanford), University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah.
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Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet.
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The first submarine fiber cable (five miles with no repeaters) was laid in the English Channel between Portsmouth and the Isle.
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The Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses.
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Dr. Stephen Wolff leads the development of NSFNET, the first U.S. open computer network supporting research and higher education.It start in Tuesday, January 1, 1985
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TAT-8 fiber optic cables went into service was laid under the Atlantic Ocean, from the United States to Britain. It carried the equivalent of 40,0000 telephone conversations.
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n Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989.
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NeXTCube was invented by Tim Berners Lee for his new invention called the World Wide Web. This was the computer where the very first web page and website were stored.
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The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.
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Facebook is a social networking service.It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.
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The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005. The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo.On October 9, 2006,,
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On October 9, 2006, it was announced that Youtube would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock, which was completed on November 13.
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Mobile photo and video sharing app Instagram has revolutionized the way we share photos, growing from a small startup in 2010 to a hugely popular service used by over 400 million people worldwide.Founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
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Snapchat is an multimedia messaging app popular in North America and Europe created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University, and developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc.
