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Spoutnik is launched .
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ARPANET is brought online under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency. Charley Kline at UCLA sent the 1st packets on ARPANET as he tried to connect to Stanford Research Institute.
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public demonstration of the ARPANET : it took a year to get everybody far enough along to demonstrate a bunch of applications on the ARPANET. The idea was that we would install a packet switch and let the public come in and use the ARPANET, running applic
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The term " Internet " first came into use.
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Email become more successful and more sophisticated (the BSD Unix operating system was developed. Eric Allman later created a program called delivermail to cobble together multiple email transport services, creating, in effect, a switch rather than an int
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Tim Berners-Lee invented a network-based implementation of the hypertext concept. By releasing his invention to public use, he ensured the technology would become wildspread. Berners-Lee received the Millenium technology prize in 2004.
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Many people realized the increasing need to be able to find and organize files and information.
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Birthday
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The first full-text Web search engine is founded. This is WebCrawler.
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Google is founded . Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products.
