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The start of the Internet
Originally, the government of the United States to help them send information to one computer to another using the method of Packet Switching. At first, the word "LOGIN," could only send two letters before crashing the first network.
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The Evolution of the Internet: Past to Present
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Email
Email was created by Ray Tomlinson, who created it by using ARPANET’s networked email system to send messages nearly instantaneously between machines that would be beneficial and practical use.
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Computer Science Network
The NSF (National Science Foundation) granted the university computer scientists and established the Computer Science Network (CSNET).
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TCP and IP
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) were created and emerged from the ARPANET used a it's protocol. It was used to connect the internet connections.
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DNS
The DNS (Domain Name System) gives letters to the addresses to websites instead of the previous method of numbers.
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HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is created by a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientist, Tim Berners-Lee.
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The World Wide Web
The European Organization for Nuclear Research introduces the World Wide Web (WWW) to the public for the first time. This is how people got their information and how they browsed the web.
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Microsoft
Microsoft makes a web browser for Windows 95. Later on, Microsoft and Netscape has have a browser war.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! was created by two students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, at Stanford University. The site was originally called "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web," but later on the name changed in 1995.
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Online Shopping
Online shopping sites, like Amazon, eBay and Craigslist, launched. This was a new way to buy items from the internet and have the shipped to you. Amazon was created by Jeff Bezos, eBay by Pierre Omidyar, and Craigslist by Craig Newmark.
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Google
The google search engine that we all know and love is born!
Google was created by Larry Page, Scott Hassan, and Sergey Brin. Google is written in the languages of C, C++, Go, Java, Python, Node, and PHP.
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Facebook/Firefox
Era of social networking starts to run as Facebook is available. The Firefox browser was also launched. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates at Harvard University. Firefox was created by the Mozilla Corporation and written in the languages of JavaScript, CSS, and XML.
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Youtube/Reddit
YouTube and Reddit were launched on sites to watch videos and comments that are posted by others. YouTube was created by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley and written in the language of JavaScript, C, C++, Go, and Java. Reddit was created by Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian, and Aaron Swartz and was written in the language of Python .
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Twitter
As Twitter was in the process of just starting out, the owner, Jack Dorsey, sent out the first tweet: "just setting up my twttr." Twitter was written in the language of C++, Java, Scala, and Ruby (Ruby on Rails).
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40th Anniversary
The 40th Anniversary of the Internet was in the year of 2009.
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Pinterest/Instagram
New sites like Pinterest and Instagram launched. These were more places to post pictures from other users. Pinterest was created by Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra and was written in the language of Python. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and was written in the language of Python.
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Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act
President Barack Obama's administration announces that they are opposed to the major parts of both the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect intellectual Property Act. This essentially helped all the major sites that we know today (e.g. Google and YouTube) as it was dependent on user-generated content.
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Online Banking
Online banking became more popular then going to the bank in person as over fifty percent of U.S. adults were banking online. An example of a bank that uses online banking is CIBC.
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Devices Connected to the Internet
A mass amount of devices are connected through the internet, both on PCs and on mobile devices. There were over seven billion device by the end of 2018.
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Expansion
By January, there are over four billion people, more than half of the global population, are connected to the internet.
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