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Development for Atanastoff-Berry Computer.
ABC, short for Atanastoff-Berry Computer, started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff. -
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. -
Computer Communication
J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark creates "On-Line Man Computer Communication" -
The Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPA studies computers directly linked in Massachusetts and California. -
ALOHAnet
ALOHAnet developed by Norm Abramson. -
Email program.
The first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson in Cambridge MA, uses the @ symbol in the email address. -
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Internet design.
The design of the Internet was done in 1973 and published in 1974. -
Telenet.
Larry Robert creates the telenet. -
Ethernet.
Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe develops Ethernet, which allowed coaxial cable to move data extremely fast. -
'Internet'
The word 'Internet' was first used. -
Domain Name System
DNS is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu. -
Cyberspace.
Writer William Gibson coins the term “cyberspace.” -
The Internet Worm.
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. -
T1 Lines.
The National Science Foundation began deploying its new T1 lines -
Browsing the Internet.
Armour Polly coins the term “Browsing the Internet” -
The Internet Society.
The ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". -
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Domain Hosts.
Number of domain hosts breaks 1,000. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
WWW war.
The WWW war is fought between Microsoft and Netscape. -
Google office.
Google opens its first office, in California. -
100 Million Computers.
There are approximately 100 million computers connected online. -
544 Millions Computers.
Internet World Stats counted over 544 million users on the Internet. -
Facebook.
Facebook is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -
1.4 Billion Web Surfers.
Internet World Stats counts over 1.4 billion web surfers worldwide. -
Twitter and Facebook.
Twitter and Facebook are the primary means of communication for the Middle East. -
SOPA and PIPA.
Internet users scored an important victory in the battle to defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act/Protect IP Act and to maintain Internet freedom.
