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Dec.1966
ARPA project begins. Larry Roberts is chief scientist -
1976
Queen Elizabeth II sends out an e-mail -
1989
McAfee Associates founded; anti-virus software available for free. Quantum becomes America Online. -
1990
ARPAnet ends. Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web -
August 24, 1995
Windows 95 released -
1999
AOL buys Netscape; Andreesen steps down as full-time employee -
November 2001
First uncompressed real-time gigabit HDTV transmission across a wide-area IP network takes place on Internet2. -
2005
YouTube.com launches -
October 2006
Google Inc. acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction -
February 2007
Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads