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Sputnik
Launch of the USSR satalite Sputnik -
Arpa
ARPA formed (Advanced Research Projects Agency) -
Network Order
US Airforce ordered the creation of a network capable of surviving a nuclear atack. -
ARPANET
ARPANET created with a network between University of California at Santa Barbara, and University of Utah, University of California at Los Angeles, and Stanford Research Institute. -
e-mail
First e-mail program written. -
TCP/IP
Development starts on TCP/IP by ARPA, used to allow different networks to connect. -
IP address
The IP address was first used, as a place to direct information. -
Domain Names
Domain names invented, the URLs we use, as a place to direct packets. Servers converted the names into IP addresses. -
World Wide Web
The world wide web was released as a means to access pages of information that are contained on severs. -
Internet2
Internet2 experimentation commenced. -
Google
Google launched. -
Google Milestone
Google reaches 1 billion URLs and are deemed world’s largest search engine. -
Users Milestone
1 Billion Internet users.