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A guy demonstrates The Jacquard Loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom which is -
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics~The USSR launched Sputnik a artificial satellite into space and to create global connections with it. Carrying the missions of becoming the leading force in science and new technologies -
ARPA contracts out work to BBN
BBN is called upon to build the first switch, ARPA contracts out to work with them -
Kahn and Cerf
- Kahn and Cerf refer to the system as the Internet for the first time.
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Internet protocol
TCP/IP becomes the standard for internet protocol. -
Host numbers
The number of Hosts breaks 1,000 -
Host numbers
The number of hosts breaks 10,000 -
First search engine
The first search engine is created by McGill University, called the Archie Search Engine -
WWW
- CERN releases the World Wide Web publicly on August 6th, 1991
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InterNIC
InterNIC released to provide general services, a database and internet directory. -
First ordering system
First internet ordering system created by Pizza Hut. -
Nokia
Nokia releases first cell phone with internet access. -
WWW browsers
The WWW browser wars are waged mainly between Microsoft and Netscape. New versions are released quarterly with the aid of internet users eager to test new (beta) versions. -
Internet Corporation
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) created to be able to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks -
First internet cellphone
Blackberry releases first internet cell phone in the United States. -
E-mail
The French Ministry of Culture bans the use of the word "e-mail" by government ministries, and adopts the use of the more French sounding "courriel" -
Youtube
Youtube launches -
Internet website online
There are an estimated 92 million websites online -
NASA test
NASA successfully tests the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Using software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, dozens of space images are transmitted to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about more than 32 million kilometers from Earth -
Facebook
Facebook announces in February that it has 400 million active users.
