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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
J.C.R. Licklider worked on developing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -
ARPA
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. It was desinged for education and research -
ARPANET
The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US -
Electronic mail
Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, computer scientist. He then used the @ sign to distinguish between the sender's name and the network name -
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and later gets more technologically advanced. -
Spam is born
Spam brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk. -
The Internet
The word "Internet" is used for the first time -
Domain Name System
Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu. -
The Internet Worm
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers -
World Wide Web
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before. -
Mosaic
The Mosaic is developed by Marc Andreeson at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) -
Yahoo
Yahoo was lauched for the first time -
Hotmail
Hotmail was created in 1995, but officially launched in 1996 -
Google Opens Office
Google opens its first office in California -
Google
Google was lauched -
My Space
MySpace.com is launched -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia was launched -
Apple Itune Store
Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people to download songs for 99 cents each. -
Facebook
Facebook was created in 2004 by co founder, Mark Zuckerburg -
Youtube
Youtube is lauched -
Websites
There are over 92 million websites online -
Twitter
Twitter was offically laumched
