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The internet, then called ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network), was first accessed by major universities after political approval. The dial-up connection was found to be "inadequate," even back then.
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Ray Tomlinson adapts email for ARPANET. The choice of "@" was largely incidental--it happened to be an available symbol on his teletype.
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Peter Deutsch and Alan Emtage create the concept of archiving for the web. I guess these guys are to blame for Timeline.
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ARPANET became the World Wide Web following a protocol about information distribution.
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Delphi becomes the first commercial network to offer internet service. Up until this point, the internet had been primarily funded by the government.
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College student Justin Hall creates the first blog ever, Links.net
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Merriam-Webster declares "blog" as word of the year.
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The National Science Foundation withdrew its sponsorship to developing the internet. AOL came online.
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Jorn Barger of the popular science blog, "Robot Wisdom," coins the term "weblog," to be shortened to "blog" in 1999 by Peter Merholz, a programmer.
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Microsoft releases Windows 98. A big hurrah for Bill Gates!
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Pyra Labs launches Blogger, one of the earliest blogging tools. It was later purchased by Google in 2003.
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LiveJournal launches, allowing users to personalize web pages and upload content.
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Matt Mullenweg creates WordPress, a blogging tool and content management system.
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MySpace is founded by eUniverse. The famous Tom Anderson becomes its first president.
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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook as a student in Harvard.
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Arianna Huffington launches the Huffington Post, a news website and blog.
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Scott Schumann begins his photo documentation of New York City fashion as thesartorialist.com. It is considered to be the pioneer of street style blogs.
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Freshly out of college, Amy Creyer launches chicagostreetstyle.com with snapshots of Chicago natives.
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Tumblr is founded by David Karp. Since then, it has gained more than 40 million users.