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DARPA project founded
J. C, R, Licklider came up with the idea of an "intergalactic network", consisting of decentralized units of data (According to Tata, this idea sprung from the fear of missile attacks - they were in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis) -
The term "Internet" was coined
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Invention of Ethernet cables by Dr. Robert Metcalfe
Ethernet: coaxial cables that transmit information quickly; their development enhanced the performance of Local Area Networks. -
Requirement of TCP and IP
By the beginning of that year, every machine connected to ARPANET required a Transmission Control Protocol and an Internet Protocol: this became the crucial aspect of internet -
.COM
the Internet Engineering Task Force published Dr. Jon Postel's idea of using .com, .org, .edu. -
Large WAN
The National Science Foundation made TCPs and IPs a requirement for the entire network; academic research needed its own Wide Area Network outside government funding, -
GIF release
CompuServe released Graphics Interchange Format. This allowed for people to compress and better exchange graphic images, but it also brought up another issue: that of copyrighted material. -
Netom, internet service provider
Netom was the first ISP established, but it was not accessible to the public. -
The World goes public
A competitor of Netcom, The World launched its own ISP and decided to go public as the first commercial dial-up internet. After the World, other companies such as Panix also popped up. -
release of the World Wide Web
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NSFNET is updraged to 45 mbps.
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Mosaic for X: the first browser
developed by the University of Illinois, NCSA and Mark Andreessen.
This enterprise would lead to new inventions, such as SSL and Netscape, also by Andreessen. -
Internet in commerce revolution! Pizza Hut offers online ordering!
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Online businesses such as eBay began to emerge
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NSA imposes annual fee on all internet domains
overwhelmed by clients, the NSA decided to limit access to internet by imposing the idea of "buying a place online", a domain, on all clients, except .govs and .edus. -
Launching of hotmail
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Founding of Google by Andy Bechtolsheim.
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wifi is standardized
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The Napster Scandal
Sean Fanning released Napster, a music-downloading website which was prosecuted by copyright infringement. This event brought up the issue of intellectual property once again. -
.com Bubble Burst
An economic crisis surfaced after people began buying stocks of online companies (that did not profit as much as they were worth, leading to a bubble burst). -
Wikipedia is launched! thank god!
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iTunes
Apple launched the iTunes store, which only had 20000 songs at the time, but in less than 24 hours sold a 250,000 songs. -
Gmail is launched
following the cloud computing model of Apple's iTunes, Google launched Gmail. -
YouTube is launched
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Twitter
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Smart Phone Era
Smart Phone data exceeded an exabyte (A billion gigabytes).
