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ARPANET
the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network allowed computers across the country to interact and share information with each other on a single network through telephone lines, it was intended for communication within government agencies and universities, the first APARNET message was sent from a computer at UCLA to a computer at Stanford university. It was supposed to send LOGIN but only sent LO before a bug crashed the network. in 1990 it was decommissioned. -
".COM" debuts
The first .com domain name was registered to a computer company out of Massachusetts named Symbolics. Apple decided to commit oneself to take the .com for themselves. Now, there are over 150 million .coms registered online. Unfortunately Symbolics went out of business in 1993. -
(WWW) World Wide Web goes live
British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee proposed to find a better way for scientists to share data, WWW is a collection of web pages that are accessible through the network of computers called the internet. Berners-Lee wrote URL, HTML, and HTTP, which helped create a user-friendly interface for the internet that allowed it to enter everyday use within 2 or 3 years. in 1991 Berners-Lee published the first webpage, filled with instructions on how to use the WWW. -
Mosaic Web Browser Released
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Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Released
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Google Founded
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Wikipedia Launches
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Facebook Founded
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Youtube Founded
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Iphone Released
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Google Chrome Released
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Instagram Founded
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Cloud Computing Expansion
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Net Neutrality Debate Intensifies