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Internet was created In the USA by ARPA so that scientists at different locations share info with everyone else and to work on military projects.
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Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson.
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Queen Elizabeth sends her first email! She’s the first state leader to do so.
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First time the word ‘Internet’ is used.
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A virus called the Internet Worm Temporality shuts down about 10% of the world’s internet servers.
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Tim Berners-Lee of CERN distributing information on the internet he calls it the World Wide Web.
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White house launches its website, whitehouse.gov, introduced the word ‘Spamming’ to the internet vocabulary.
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Sun Microsystems releases the internet programming language called Java.
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Approximately 45 million people are using the internet; with roughly 30 million of those people are in USA and Canada, 9 million in Europe, and 6 million in Asia/Pacific (Australia, Japan, etc).
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Google opens its first office, in California.
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About 9.8 billion electronic messages are sent daily, and Wikipedia is created.
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Apple computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store.
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YouTube.com is launched.
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Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion!!!