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Leonard Kleinrock suggests the idea of packets.
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J.C.R. Licklider and W. Clark propose the idea of a galactic network for social interaction.
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National Physical Lab sets up first packet switching network.
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Ray Tomlinson creates email.
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DNS is introduced
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World wide web released by CERN.
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The first true user friendly browser is developed.
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Broadband begins to replace the slow dial up.
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Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerburg at Harvard. Facebook inspired many of the current social media networks.
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2016, the year of the big data. 90% of the world's data was actually created between 2015 and 2016!