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USSR launches sputnik first artificial earth satelite, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to help US beat russia in technoogy for the military
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Paul Baran writes a paper called "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack" which provided the reason for building the first network of the internet
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the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII
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Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term Hypertext which is the programing language of the internet
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ARPANET is commishened by the department of defense DoD for reasearch into networking
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Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson
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The minicomputer Xerox Alto is invented
Vint Cerf and Bob Khan deveop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks -
Telnet commences a commercial version of ARPANET
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The Microsoft foundation is founded by Bill Gates
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Satellite links between Hawaii and UK are established connecting the Bristish network to the American network
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Apple computers was Founded by Steve Jobs And Steve Wozniak
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A program "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exhange files with each other over phone lines is invented
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TCP splits into TCP (transmission control) and IP (internet Protocol)
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ARPANET crashes from accidental virus
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SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is invented
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Domain name system (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel,Paul Mockapetris and Craig Patridge.Seven top level domain name are initially introduced edu,gov,mi,net,org and int
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Domain Name system Introduced
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Internet worm burrows though the Net
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a hypertext system starting the modern internet
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ARPANET ceases to exist
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The world wide web is launched to the public
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at the beginning of the year only 50 World wide web servers are know to exsist
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The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web
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Yahoo is reated in April
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Java is introduced
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Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
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Ebay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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webtv is introduced
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Altavista introduces it free online translater Bable Fish
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Microsoft acquires Hotmail
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Paypal is made
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Google is foundd by sergey Brin and Larry Page
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Napster suspended and restarts as a subscribtion service
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Paypal is acquired by Ebay
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Ebay cquires Skype
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Skype announces that is has over 100 million register users
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NASA test first deep space communication network modelled on top of the internet
