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President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.
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Len Kleinrock, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, writes first paper on packet switching
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J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark write first paper on Internet Concept
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Paul Baran writes, "On Distributed Communications Networks,"
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Email was first invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson
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the year the first PC modem, developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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the year that brought the first unsolicited commercial email message (later known as spam), sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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The earliest form of multiplayer games
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internet-based discussion system
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The word Internet was used for the first time
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modern emoticon was born
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switch over to the TCP/IP protocols
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William Gibson writes "Neuromancer.
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addresses on the Internet more human-friendly
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The most influential online community in the world
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Youtube was invented in 2005 by 3 employee's of PayPal.