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In 1957, The USSR (Russia) launches Sputnik, which is an artificial earth satelite. Becuase of this, The United States create the Advanced Research Projects Agency. This establishes lead in US technology.
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The ARPA launches arpanet. A mini Honywell mini computer was connected between 4 nodes. Utah, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Satnford.
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A man named Ray Tomlinson created the first use of the '@' sign. This was used to transfer data between each node using Arpanet.
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Stanford created a device called TCP / IP, This allowed different computers to communicate and interconnect wih each other.
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The first use of the term, Internet. This was used by Vint cerf in a paper of transmission conrol.
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The first online bulletin board was created to connect between different systems, posting comments onto one page.
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The nation science foundation created a System called CSNET, this allowed networks who did not have access to ARPANET.
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In Wisconsin they created the DOmain name system. This was a word or phrase that could be entered into the system and be translated into a IP Number for the computer to read. This meant that people no longer had to remeber long numbers.
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A proffesor a CERN first named the wide system of computers interconnected with each, the 'WORLD WIDE WEB'
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The total number of people using the internet in 1996 is a grand total of 45 million.
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After nearly 50 years of development the internet has a total number of users of 360 million. And the internet is still developing.
