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Cold war origins
The Internet owes its beginning to the cold war, a rivalry between America and the Soviet union over technology in 1945. -
Department of defence
The Soviet union was capeable of creating highky destructib=ve weapons. The department of defence founded the Advanced Research Projects Agency to pursue research in missle technology. These projects would develope into the internet. -
Lickelider
Licklider had written a research paper in 1960 describing his proposal for a "Galactic Network" which is is an interconnected global network of computers that could share data and programs. -
ARPA
In 1962 ARPA created a computer research team called the Information Proccesing Technologies Office(IPTO) REsearchers were were charged with devising a new way to share information between ARPA computers. -
packet switching
In 1966 te IPTO began developing a computer network capable of transmitting information over telephone lines. They used a method called Packet Switching -
Computor Processor
In 1969 a computer scientist installed the first Computer processor capable of handling digital packet switched data on a host computer -
ARPAnet
By 1971 a total of 23 host computers at 15 different intitutions were a part of the ARPAnet. -
E-mail
In 1972, ARPA researchers developed a computer program that enabled people to send breif messages. This was the beginning of e-mail. -
CERN
Tim Berners-lee a British computer researcher at CERN invented the World Wide Web. The system allowed the internet to display photographs, videos, and sound. -
Gopher
A search program called Gopher developed at the Universary of Minnesota became public. Gopher organized info on the internet based on related topics. It also allowed people to use a men =u like system to find whar they were looking for. -
Berner-lees Web
Universities and research centers around the world rapidly obtained Berner-lees Web Program, which was freely avaiilable on the internet. In late 1992, the program had been used to create about 50 sites on the World Wide Web. -
Mosaic Netscape
In 1994 Mosaic Communication launched a commercial Web browser system called Mosaic Netscape. They later changed the name to Netscape Navigator. -
Microsoft vrs. Netscape
In 1995 Microsoft Corp. released its own web called Internet Explorer. Microsoft and Netscape quickly entered a batlle to create the most popular browser. -
Internet Explorer wins
In 1999 America Online puchased Netscape. By 2000, more then half of the personal computers used Internet Explorer, Whlie a third used Netscape Navigator -
Website
By 2002, the web expanded to over 36 millions of websites. Thousands more were uploaded daily.