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US become businsuess machince
Tabulating Machine Company of the US becomes International Business Machines. (IBM ) -
faster computers
Donald Watts Davies joins a team led by Alan Turing at the National Physical Laboratory to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACE. -
a dozon of old electronic computers could fill warehouse
There are less than a dozen electronic computers. They are so big that they fill entire "air-conditioned warehouses". -
Who Thought of the Internet First?
Leonard Kleinrock is credited with crafting the first public concept for the Internet with his paper, “Information Flow in Large Communication Nets” on May 31st, 1961. -
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Development of Email
Often overshadowed by the development of ARPANET, the first use of network email occurred in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson. -
internetting Project ARPA
Internetting Project ARPA gives birth to the Internetting Project to link Larry Roberts' packet radio network to the ARPANET. -
US bring out the first portable laptop
Portable computer US Altair produces the first portable computer. -
The word “Internet” is used for the first time.
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A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
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The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.
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Google opens its first office, in California.
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YouTube.com is launched.
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There are more than 92 million websites online.
