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IPTO
ARPA created a computer research department IPTO-devising a way to share information between ARPA's computer -
Packet Switching
Packet Switching was made by IPTO to transmit info over telephone lines. -
Computer Processor
Leonard Kleinrock installed the first computer processor capable of handling digital package switch data. -
ARPANet
23 host computers at 15 different institutions were part of the ARPANet -
ARPANet
ARPANet researchers made a computer program where people could send brief messages to each other across the network-beginning of electronic email. -
Networks
Researchers at BNN and Stanford designed a way to ling networks together. -
TCP/IP
ARPANet began using TCP/IP. The internet became a common way to refer to as the supernetwork. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berner's Lee a computer programmer at CERN invented World Wide Web allowing the internet to display photographs, videos, and sound. -
Gopher
A search program called Gopher, became available to public. Allowing people to use a menu-like system to find what they
were looking for -
Wide Area Information Servers Sytem
Brewster Khale, a computer researcher at Thinking Machones Corporation invented Wide Area Information Servers System. Permitted computers to search for files based on actual content. -
Program
Marc Anderson and Eric Bina, students at University of Illinois National Center for supercomputing Applications at Urban-Champaign, developed a browsing program that made it much easier for people to access the world wide web. -
Mosaic Communications Corporation
Andreessen and Jim Clark the founder of a California computer manufacturing company called silicon Graphics, formed Mosaic Communcations Corporation. -
Internet Explorer
The Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, released its web browser called Internet Explorer -
Internet Explorers
More than half of the personal computers in the United States used Internet Explorer. -
Web
The web had expanded to include more than 36 million sites, with thousands more added.