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In 1958, the government research agency, ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) was organized in the U.S. created in response to Russia's technological and military challenges during the Cold War, from which the foundations of the future global network of Internet computers.
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One of the first emails is sent. Happens at MIT using an IBM-7094 computer.
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Len Kleinrock creates packet switching, a basic technology for computer interconnection growth.
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The U.S. Department of Defense launches the ARPANET system, the world's first scientific and academic network, the beginning of the Internet.
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The use of email is popularized and the first public demonstration of APANET is made
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Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn create the TCP/IP protocol. ARPANET is divided, and its military functions are passed to MILNET. Thousands of computers are added to ARPANET.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation creates the development of the NSFnet, which will be the substitute for ARPANET.
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The number of hosts on the Internet exceeds 10,000. Paul Mockapetris creates DNS, a naming system for Internet domains.
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The Internet is infected by a worm-type virus (created by Robert Morris) that occupies 10% of the network. The CERT is created. There are 100,000 hosts on the network.
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The Internet is growing dscommunally: there are 50,000 networks, 4,000,000 systems, 70,000,000 users. The Internet is beginning to have a commercial use.
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Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web, from CERN, (European Organization for Nuclear Researc), using hypertext language.
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Marc Andreessen produces the first version of Mosaic, a program that made it easier to browse the Internet. Later, it would become Netscape. It's the beginning of browsers. Internic, the first administrative center for the Internet, is created.
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Jezz Bezos creates Amazon, the world's biggest leading online book sales store.
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Jerry Yang and David Filo creat Yahoo!
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Blogs are born. One of the world's first bloggers is Justin Hall.
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Founded in California eBay, the first place of interenet auctions.
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Google, a company created by Larry Page and Sergei Brin, appears.
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Shawn Fanning creates Napster, a music file distribution service (in MP3 format).
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Bram Cohen creates Bit Torrent (protocol designed for peer-to-peer file sharing on the Internet. It is one of the most common protocols for large file transfer).
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger create the greatest and most popular Internet encyclopedia, the Wikipedia.
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Jonathan Abrams launches Friendster, the world's first social network.
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Mark Zuckerberg founds Facebook.
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Google creates a social network called Orkut, that ends up being dominated by Brazilians and Indians.
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Chad Harley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim create YouTube in California.
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Hong Kong-based file transfer company Megaupload appears. The Internet becomes a threat to TV and phone companies. In YouTube, more tan one hundred million of videos are watched everyday.
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Twitter is launched, the first microblogging social network, created by Jack Dorsey.
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IPhone appears (the first multimedia phone device with an Internet connection. From here much of the Internet traffic is started to be established through mobile devices).
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