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To compete against the USSR's success at launching the first satellite, the United States Department of Defense creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). ARPA is responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.
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The paper, A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man’s Intellect is published by Douglas Engelbart. The work outlines multimedia paradigms to be integrated into the Internet.
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Rand Corporation proposes a new information network so that the United States could successfully communicate after a nuclear war.
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The first host-to-host Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) connection is made on October 25, 1969, between the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.
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ARPANET begins to be used for communicating email.
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The term “Internet” begins to be used.
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Al Gore coins the term for the Internet “The Information Superhighway.”
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the phrase “World Wide Web” is coined by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Internet registration begins for .com, .net. .org, .edu, and .gov.
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Yahoo! is founded in Santa Clara, California, and provides a web search engine, email service, mapping and more.
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There are now 3 million domain registrants on the Internet. The number of Web pages on the Internet is 300 million and growing by over 1.5 million per day.
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Wikipedia is launched.
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YouTube launches
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Internet World Stats counts over 1.9 billion web surfers worldwide as of June, 2010.