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A series of memos are written by Joseph C. R. Licklider describing a concept of networking to connect computers.
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The RAND Proposal is published, detailing the need of the military to have a stand alone network that could work in a postnuclear America
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Lawrence Roberts pitches ARPA funded centers on a network experiment that was not well received by investigators.
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ARPA is approved to build a four-node network. The nodes would be located in the Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA and the University of Utah.
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Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BNN) become the contractors hired to build ARPA’s four node network.
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ARPANET, developed by a small team, went live at UCLA and successfully communicated with the mainframe.
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The first microprocessor is built by Intel on silicon the size of a postage stamp.
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The first public demonstration of ARPANET and its network technology took place.
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AT&T declines the government’s offer for them to take over ARPANET, claiming that there would be no profit in it
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An outline of the new Transmission Control Protocol, written by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn was published detailing the language of the network and its principles. Link text
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TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol) starts being used by outside networks to link to ARPANET.
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Berners-Lee, who was able to create a hyperlinked connection, wanted users to be able to find and contribute information on that system, a step towards the creation of the World Wide Web.
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The IAB and Daniel Lynch arranged a workshop for companies and vendors to learn about TCP/IP and how they could use it.
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NSFNET is launched by The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Steven Wolff and provides a network connection between six computers.
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Mosaic, a web browser is created and released by Marc Andreessen of the University of Illinois and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
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Google, an online search engine is launched by two Stanford graduates, and quickly goes public.
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The internet reaches every populated country in the world.
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Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that could be revised and added to by a community of people, is launched.
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Study by the Department of Commerce and NTIA shows that more than 50 percent of the population were internet users
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Facebook, an online social networking platform, invented by Harvard student Mark Zuckerburg, is launched to college students and later offered to anyone with an internet connection.
