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The USSR launch the first satelitte into space. They named it "Sputnik.
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President Dwight Eisenhower requested some funds to start an A.R.P.A.
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First aper about "on-line man computer communications" is written by J.C.R Licklider and W. Clark.
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The ARPA project is starting and Larry Roberts is the head scientist of the project.
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At the UCLA Network Measurement center, the first ARPAnet node has been installed into a Sigma 7 computer.
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The first radio broadcast occurs at the University of Hawaii. It is called "Alohanet."
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The first simple e-mail programs are written by Ray Tomlinson for the ARPAnet.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company "Apple."
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The cisco systems are created and used til' the present day.
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The DNS or (Domain Name System) is created for the first time. Inventors are Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge.
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At this time, the first ever Cisco router is shipped.
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In the Year of 1987, 25,000 PC's are sold in the United States
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The Online ARPAnet ends. The creation of the World Wide Web is created by Tim Berners-Lee.
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The very popular phrase "Surfing the internet" is credited to Jean Armour Polly. She was a librarian who came up with the phrase.
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Windows 95 is released in the year of 1995.
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The domain "tv.com" is sold for a total of $15,000 to CNET. Domain Wars start. This goes back and forth with the purchasing of different domain names. The most avid competetors are Microsoft and Netscape.
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The browser wars stop. Netscape and Microsoft decide to share near 100% of the borwser market.
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In the year of 2000, over 10,000,000 domain names were registered!
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The RIAA sued 261 people for the distribution of copyright music files.
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The Search engine "Google" passes up Microsoft as the "Most valuable global brand." Also, Google is named the most visited web site.
