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John Golden Theater
It also operated as a movie house in the late 9040s and '50s -
The Soviets lanched Spunik
The Soviets launced Sputnik, man's first foray into outer space, and the U.S. government under President Eisenhower subsequently launched an aggressive military campaign -
ARPA
President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill. -
Sending a moan to the moon
through the time period of 40s-50s we wanted to send a man to space and we started researching/working on a spaceship -
Packet Switching
Len Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, writes first paper on packet switching, -
First paper on internet concept
J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept, "On-Line Man Computer Communications." -
Message Blocks
Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks," first paper on using message blocks to send info across a decentralized networktopology(Nodes and Links) -
RPG
Report Program Generator, a programming languae developed by IMB in the mid-60s fro developing business applications, especially generating reports from data. -
ARPA Begins
ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is chief scientist. -
Contract was made
ARPANet contract given to bolt, Bernack and Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Mass. -
Unix
The operating system whose design influenced the Linux and FreeBSD -
Email
Ray Tomlinson developed the email, who decided to use the '@" symbol to seperate the user name from the computer name. -
Intel
Intelreleases the 8080 processor. -
The Apple 2
The first mass-marketed personal computer, the Apple II, is launched. -
first personal computer
IMB announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS -
Apple Company
Steve Jobs created the Apple Computer, -
Cisco System
Cisco system founded -
uses the internet to write the first book
William Gibson writes "Neuromancer." Coins the term "Cyberspace." -
Hosts and routers
10,000 hosts on the Internet
First Cisco router shipped -
World Wide Web
ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. -
Windows 95 released
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business.com
business.com solf for $150,000 -
High Speed Internet
Fixed wireless, high-speed internet technology is now seen as a viable alternative to copper and fiber optic lines placed in the ground. -
web pages doubles
there are 20,000 websites on the internet, numbers doubling since February 2000 -
iTunes
apple surpasses one billion itunes downloads -
First Internet College
First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway) -
Internet users
1.114 billion people use the interent according to interent wrold status
