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History of Internet
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Sputnik was launched into space by the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union beat the Americans into space, so they started getting worried and scheming -
ARPA Formed
American defence was getting worried about the Soviet Union getting into space so started pouring money into developing a network -
First Paper on Packet Switching Theory
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First Packets sent
UCLA tried logging into SRI, the first attempt ended in the system crashing as the letter G of LOGIN was entered -
Bulletin Board System Introduced
When BBS first started, most of them were run as a free hobby from the system operator although they really started getting popular after 1980 as modem speed was significantly improved. -
Email was Introduced
Invented by Ray Tomlinson, also created the @ symbol -
Internation Packet Switched Service
IPSS was created as a collaboration between the United Kingdoms General Post Office, Western Union international and the United States Tymnet. -
Internet given its name
First called the "Internet" -
TCP/IP declared internet standard for military
US Department of Defense declared TCP/IP as the standard for all military computer networking -
DNS is introduced
.com web addresses first used -
1000 Hosts reached
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Internet Reached 10,000 Hosts
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WWW invented
Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web -
Number of hosts reach 100,000
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First Commercial Dialup
Available to purchase and use. -
Term Internet used Daily
Became a normal word -
10 Million Users
Ten Million Internet users reached -
Google reaches 1 Billion web pages crawled
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Facebook first launched
First only available to Harvard College students before other US universities joined.
Made available to the public in 2006 -
Google reaches 1 Trillion pages crawled
Although only a fraction are actually indexed.
