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Sputnik was launched
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development of distributed network and packet switching
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first two nodes connect - UCLA and Stanford
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Ray Tomlison invents email ant the @ symbol is adopted
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Bulletin board system (BBS) invented
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BBS was resealed to the public
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TCP/IP established
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Numeric address replaced with human-friendly domain names (DNS)
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WorldWideWeb browser ( later named Nexus) written by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
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Mosaic-GUI browser. Developers go on to create Netscape Navigator and Microsoft buy the Mosaic Licence
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Internet Explorer 1 - based on Mosaic