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The ARPA was introduced online as a connection between 4 major universities in the US
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Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist in Cambridge Massachusetts, introduced the electronic mail. The symbol @ was used in the email address to separate the name of the user and the name of the network.
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Microsoft developed Disk Operating System (DOS).
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The term “Internet” was introduced
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The Domain Name System (DNS) was set up, and domain names were given extensions like .com, .org, and .edu.
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The Internet Worm virus temporarily disabled 10% of the Internet servers around the world.
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The World (world.std.com) became the first dial-up Internet access provider. Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web to enable users to use hyperlinks to connect to documents in websites.
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The Internet was used by around 45 million people, of which 30 million were Americans. There were personal computers in 43.2 million households in the US, and 14 million of these had Internet access.
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The first office of search engine giant Google was set up in California.
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Many Internet users were hit by viruses, such as “Stages” and “Love Bug”, and many companies were temporarily forced to shut down their networks. Investment capital on the Internet dried up, and many dotcoms had to be closed down. Time Warner was bought by America Online for $16 billion, resulting in the biggest merger ever.
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About 544.2 million people around the world were using the Internet, with 164.14 million in the US alone.
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YouTube was launched.
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The number of websites on the Internet had risen to 92 million.
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In a bid to compete with Google, Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo! for a price of $44.6 billion.