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the internet

By willijoh

  • ARPAnet

    in the late 1960's the Arpanet was created by ARPA in the us department of defence

  • A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers

  • Period: to

    the ibnternet

    http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html

  • Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address

  • The word “Internet” is used for the first time

  • Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.Writer William Gibson coins the term “cyberspace

  • The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal, who devises Archie, an archive of FTP sites

  • CompuServe, America Online, and Prodigy start providing dial-up Internet access.Sun Microsystems releases the Internet programming language called Java.The Vatican launches its own website, www.vatican.va

  • google lauched

  • Napster is dealt a potentially fatal blow when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rules that the company is violating copyright laws and orders it to stop distributing copyrighted music. The file-swapping company says it is developing

  • wikipeda started

  • facebook started

  • youtube lauched

  • There are more than 92 million websites online

  • youtube started

  • 2006 mass downloading

    this is where mass people started downloading moive,music,tv shows all for free

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