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ARPA
Thge U.S. Government creates the Advanced Researhc Projects Agency (ARPA)/. creates a network that will connect the government throughout the country in case of an attack. -
E-mail
Ray tomlinson, a cambridge computer scientist creates electronic mail (E-mail) -
TCP/IP
Transmission control protocol/internet protocol is designed and becomes a standard when communicating with computers over the internet -
The First
Jimmy carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan their campaign trail. Queen elizabeth becomes the first country leader to send an email -
Interent
The word "interent" is used for the first time. -
DNS
Domain Name System (DNS) is made with the suffixes .com, .org, and .edu Author william Gibson also coins the term cyberspace. -
America Online
Quantam Computer Services changes its name to America Online launches. it offers email, e-bulletin boards and more information. -
"The Worm"
an internet virus called "The Worm" shuts down about 10% of the worlds internet -
Dial-Up
world.std.com debuts and is the first to offer dial up internet service to american civilians -
Archie
Peter Duetsch Creates Archie, an index of FTP sites -
Gopher
The University of minnesota creates Gopher, another attempt to index the interent that allows for point and click navigation -
Mosaic
Marc Andreeson creates mosaic at the National Center For SuperComputing Applications (NCSA) it house 1% of the worlds internet traffic and becomas the dominant domain for the internet -
The White House
The whitehouse launches its website www.whitehouse.gov -
Dial UP
CompuServe, America Online, and prodigy all start providing dial-up internet access -
Population
45 million people are using the internet with 30million of those people being in North America -
NASA
All internet Traffic records are broken when NASA posts images taken by pathfinder -
Google
google opens its first office in california -
Napster
Shawn fanning invents Napster, which lets people swap music over the interent -
Viruses
Miscreant computer Programmers create the "LoveBug" and "stages" viruses that self replicate themselves by sending themselves to email addresses in a computers address book -
Napster Dead?
Napster is almost shut down when there is an appeal that they are violting copyright laws -
Music
internet users download 2.6 billion illegal music files each month -
More Viruses
MyDoom infects about every 1 in 12 emails -
Youtube
youtube is launched -
Sites
There are more than 96 million internet sites online -
Music
legal music downloads amount to about 6.7 million per week -
Google
microsoft offers to buy yahoo for 44.6 billion to challenge googles internet dominance -
Internet Users
as of january 2002 58.5% of America uses the internet