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ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. This was to prevent a loss of connection should there be an attack.
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e-mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson a scientist from Cambridge, MA
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is created and becomes the standard for computer comunication.
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President Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use e-mail to plan campaign events and Queen Elizabeth sends her first e-mail.
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The Word "Internet" Gets Used
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DNS is established. In other words sites gained .com, .org, and .net like extensions.
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A virus called the Internet Worm shuts down 10% of the world's Internet
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Tim Berners-Lee at CERN develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web.
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The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov
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Sun Microsystems releases Internet programming called Java.
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Google opens its first office, in California.
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College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster. It is a computer application that allows users to share music over the Internet.
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Internet virus called MyDoom or Novarg, spreads through the Internet
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There are more than 92 million websites online.
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Over 1.75 billion are online and the numbers continue to grow.