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ARPA goes online connecting four universities for the first time
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history of internet
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Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist.
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Leader's first sent email
Queen Elizabeth sends her first email. She's the first state leader to do so -
Name "internet" is used for the first time
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A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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www.
Tim Berners-Lee develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide Web. The Web is based on hypertext, which permits the user to connect from one document to another at different sites on the Internet via hyperlinks (specially programmed words, phrases, buttons, or graphics). -
www.whitehouse.gov
The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov. Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary. -
Java
Sun Microsystems releases the Internet programming language called Java. -
Internet2
Internet2 Project was originally established by 34 university researchers -
Internet traffic record broken
Internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images taken by Pathfinder on Mars. The broadcast generates 46 million hits in one day. -
Google
Google opens its first office in California. -
Napster
College student Shawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows users to swap music over the Internet. -
Napster's fall
Napster is dealt a potentially fatal blow when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rules that the company is violating copyright laws and orders it to stop distributing copyrighted music. The file-swapping company says it is developing a subscription-based service. -
Apple itunes
Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents each. -
Youtube
YouTube.com is launched. -
Microsoft
software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
Microsoft to give competitors information necessary to operate with Windows. Since 2004, Microsoft has been fined a total of $2.5 billion by the Commission for not adhering to their ruling. -
Work cited
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/internet-timeline--39
https://sites.google.com/a/email.appstate.edu/internet2-day-the-next-generation-network-meeting-the-demands-of-today/what-is-internet2/timeline-of-internet2
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0193167.html
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