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The Sviet Union launched the first artificail satellite. This Sputnik satellite alarmed the US since they realized the Soviets could develope highly destructive weapons and deliver them through space.
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After the Soviets launched their satllite, The US department of defense founded the Advanced Research Projects Agency, who soon came to develope things like missile technololgy and the internet.
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ARPA crated Information Processing Technologies Office that went on to find a way to share ifnormation between ARPA's computers and other computers around the United States.
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IPTO began developed a computer network that was capable of transmitting info over telephone lines called packet switching.
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Leonard Kleinrock installed the first computer processor capable of handling digital packet-switched data on a UCLA "host" computer.
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ARPANet had 23 host computers at 15 different institutions
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ARPANet researchers programed and made a way to send brief messages across a network.
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WAIS helped engines like google become popular.
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Tim Berners Lee, invented the World WIde Web.
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Gopher, a search program developed at the University of Minnesota became available to the public.
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A Wide Area Info Server system was invented and permitted users to search for files based on real content.
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Berners-Lee's program about 50 sites on the world wide web.
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Students working at NCSA developed a browsing program that made it easier for people to access the World Wide Web.
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By 2000 more than half of personal computers in the US used internet explorer.
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The web expanded to have more than 36 million sites. With thousands added everyday