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Development of the first electronic computers started in the 1950s, it was concocted by the military.
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The ARPANET was the first network to connect a series of computers, it was private. Sort of like a prototype.
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By the end of the 1970s Vinton Cerf developed a way for all of the computers on all of the world’s mini-networks to communicate with one another.
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Domain Name System is established.
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The World debuts as the first provider of dial-up internet access for consumers.
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In 1991 the Internet changed again a computer programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web, an Internet that was not simply a way to send files from one place to another but was itself a “web” of information that anyone on the Internet could retrieve.
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In 1992, a group of students and researchers at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic.
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Hotmail becomes the most popular email service provider.
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Netflix is founded and will soon become a huge site with thousands of movies and series.
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Google is created and is soon to become the biggest search engine in the world.
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Napster allows for free download of music and opened up a huge market for underground music downloading on the internet.
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Facebook is created and will soon become the largest social media website in the world and the most used site in the world.
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Youtube revolutionizes the video-sharing community on the internet.
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Twitter is created and will soon be one the biggest social media sites and the most popular way of people with a fanbase to connect with their fans
