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Postal System
Frenchman De Valayer establishes a postal system in Paris. He set up mail boxes, and also delivered letters. -
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Early Mail Systems
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Pony Express
Pony Express. 183 men ride in hopes of getting a million dollar government contract by swiftly delivering mail on horses. -
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Pony Express
Pony Express delivers mail. -
Thinking of a computer system
JDR Licklider of MIT proposed a global network of computers -
Connecting Computers
Lawrence Roberts of MIT connects a Mass. Computer with a Cali. Computer over dial-up telephones. -
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Brain-storming and Rough Drafting
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Connecting More Computers
ARPANET (the internet at the time) comes online under contract by the ARPA. It connects four major university’s computers. (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah) -
Creation of E-Mail
Ray Tomlinson of BBN adapts E-Mail for ARPANET. He chooses the @ symbol to connect the username and address. -
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Web Essentials
The things we use today on the internet and thought of and put together. -
Structuring the Internet
National Science Foundation funds NSFNet. It is a cross-country, 56 Kbps backbone for the internet. -
Archie = World Wide Web
Peter Deutsch creates Archie. It was by far the greatest thing to happen for the up and coming internet. This software would reach out to all known ftp sites. It would then list all of its files. This would create a gigantic database, and would go on to be known as the World Wide Web. -
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Only One Can Come Out On Top
Mosiac and Microsoft go butt heads, but Microsoft and Bill Gates come out on top. -
Competition In The Making
Marc Andreessen releases Mosiac, a graphical browser (we know it today as our internet). This starts a rivalry with Bill Gates and Microsoft. -
Coming Out On Top, And Starting A Revolution
Bill Gates and Microsoft release Windows 98. This computer software featured Microsoft Internet Explorer, a well integrated web-browser that was easy to use, thus making everyone wanting to use the internet. With the internet easy to use, people started using E-Mail more, and causing a big internet boom.
