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The Russians and the Americans race to land on the moon
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Russia quietly launched its first spacecraft satellite called Sputnik into orbit. This launch challenged the United States Department of Defense to put a high priority on research and projects in science and technology and created an agency called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency).
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This caused the the American's to take initiative and start becoming more competitive in technology and science. The Americans win the race.
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Bob Kah refers to the term "Internet" for the first time in their notes regarding Transmission Control Protocol.
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The word “Internet“ is used for the first time.
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The ARPANET was divided into two separate networks of MILNET and ARPANET. MILNET was used for military purposes and ARPANET was used for research and educational purposes. There was about 1000 hosts connected to ARPANET.
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Quantum Computer Services, which later changes its name to America Online, debuts. It offers email, electronic bulletin boards, news, and other information and A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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The World wide web was invented by Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, an engineer and computer scientist from Great Britin, working as a professor at MIT and CERN Laboratory.
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CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.
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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.
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The first audio and video are distributed over the Internet. The phrase "surfing the Internet" is popularized.
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The White House launches its website.Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming“ to the Internet vocabulary.
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark start Netscape Communications. They introduce the Navigator browser.
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Google opens its first office, in California.
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As of January, 58.5% of the U.S. population (164.14 million people) uses the Internet. Worldwide there are 544.2 million users.
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Millions of people around the world use the internet. This changes the whole culture and everyone perspective on the world.
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On September 26, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) spoke during the 70th annual U.N. General Assembly session, to increase awareness and garner support for the initiative, ONE--an organization "taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease." Zuckerberg's goal is to bring the Internet to the masses; universal Internet access, he claims, is a basic human right and is an essential tool in the fight to achieve global justice. https://www.facebook.com/
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Millions of people, schools, businesses, significantly rely on internet with their life.
