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History of the Internet
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Sputnik I launched
Internet is released. -
ARPANET created
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First ARPANET international connections
First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway). -
Intel releases the 8080 processor
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Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail.
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IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS
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Cisco systems founded
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Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge
.edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int created. -
5000 hosts on ARPAnet/Internet
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10,000 hosts on the Internet
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25 million PCs sold in US.
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McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free
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ARPAnet ends
Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. -
Jeff Bezos writes the business plan for Amazon.com.
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Windows 95 released
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There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet
Numbers doubling since February 2000 -
YouTube.com launches
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There are an estimated 92 million websites online
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Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion
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Microsoft launches its various consumer versions of Microsoft Vista.
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Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads
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1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats
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Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as "the most valuable global brand."
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Google becomes the most visited website on the Internet.