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During the 1960's
- RAND, CLA and MIT came up with Packet Switching,
- DARPA develops ARPANET.
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4 "nodes" online
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During the 1970's
- First electronic message sent- Mailing lists created.
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ARPANET grows to 30 nodes
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Number of users on Public TCP networks outnumbers ARPANET
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First virus sent on ARPANET
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ARPANET adopts TCP/IP
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DNS introduced: Number of online hosts passes 1,000.
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USNET (Moderated Newsgroups) introduced
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During the 1990's
- ARPANET dies.
- First commercial dial-up services become available.
- Orgs worldwide get onlines: World Bank, UN, White House.
- Flash Introduced.
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Tim Berners-Lee creates WWW @ CERN
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First commercial: Pizza Hut
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Yahoo founded
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Google founded
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Browser wars between Netscape and Microsfot signal new era of software development
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6.5 million sites online
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Flash video created
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Facemash created
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YouTube created