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World Wide Web
Leonard Kleinrock is rewarded as the person who developed the internet when he first wrote ARPANET (predecessor of the internet) -
Two Computers at MIT
2 computers at MIT Lincoln Lab communicate wit hone another using packet-switching technology -
BBN wins ARPANET contract
Beranek and Newman, Inc. unveils the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. -
ARPANET
Precursor to the internet was jump started in the early days of computing history, with the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency Network -
UCLA's Network Measurement Center
On October 29, UCLA's Network Measurement Center, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California-Santa Barbara and University of Utah install nodes. first message was "LO" -
Supercomputer centers
National Science Foundations NSFNET goes online to connected supercomputer centers at 56,000 bits per second - the speed of a typical dial-up computer motem -
Netscape
Netscape Communications is born. Microsoft creates web browser for Windows 95. -
Dancing baby
A 3D animation dubbed "The Dancing Baby" becomes one of the first viral videos -
Google search
The Google Search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the internet -
Facebook
Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins. -
51%
51% of U.S. adults report that they bank online, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center
