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Vennevar Bush publishes paper on memex machine
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U.S.S.R.(Union of Soviet Socilist Republic) launches Stutnik, the first artifical earth satellite
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J.C.R. Lidlicker publishes his landmark paper, "Man-Computer Symbiosis".
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Licklider funds Englebarts new "Augmentation Research Center"at Stanford
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Paul Bryan gets funding from US Air Force to expirament with black block switching network, to protect communications during a nuclear war. He later withdrew his proposal.
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ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) mails out 140 requests for Proposals to prospective contractors to build the first four IMPs (Interface Message Processor)
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The First node to node messages sent between the University of Los Angeles and Standford Research Institute
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Bob Metcalfe, a Harvard PhD thesis outlines the idea for Ethernet. -Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf present basic internet ideas to the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom
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First international connection to ARPANET: University College of London (England) ad Royal Radar Establishment (Norway)
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Queen Elizabeth II sends out her first e-mail
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Theorynet created by Larry Landweber at University of Wisconsin providing electronic mail to over 100 researchers in computer science (using a locally devolped email system and Telenet for access to sever)
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Packet Radio Network (PRNET) experiment starts with funding. Most communications take place between ARPANET connection via SRI (Signal Related Information)
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Internet Protocol Devolped (IP)
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Name server devolped at University of Wisconsin, no longer requiring users to know the exact path to other systems
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Domain Name System (DNS) devolped
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Number of hosts breaks 1,000
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Number of hosts breaks 10,000
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CERT (Computer Emerengcy Responce Team) formed by man in response to the needs exhibited during the Morris worm incident. The worm is the only advisory issued this year.
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Internet work burrows through the Net, affecting -6,000 of 60,000 hosts on the internet
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Countries with internet; Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom
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Number of Hosts breaks 100,000
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is founded by Mitch Kapor and Stewart Brand
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The world comes online (World.std.com), becoming the first commercial provider of internet dial up access
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A scientist names Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Switzerland.
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NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) traffic passes 1 trillion bytes/month and 10 billion packets/month.
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New Internet phones catch the attention of the United States telecommunication companies. The companies ask the US Congress to ban that technology.
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Microsoft releases its new Windows 98, a very advanced computer,
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On July 29th, 2007 Apple, Inc. introduced the Apple iPhone to the United States. The iPhone re-introduced the definition of mobile internet, making it avaible to everyone with the phone,
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The first tablets were produced with internet in 2010.
