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In an article in the Atlantic Monthly magazine , Vannevar Bush described the first Automated information management system. His vision was of a machine that turned out to be the start of what is now known as the world wide web.
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In a book, Norbert Weiner wrote about a field that was a combination of man and electronics. He called ths field Cybernetics. This concept would inspire future generations of scientists on how to increase the human capabilities with the help of electronics.
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John McCarty invited many researchers from around the world to come togther to Darthmouth College in New Hampshire to discuss a subject that he called " Artificial Intelligence".
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Dept. of Defense ( DOD) hired J.C.R. Licklider with a mandate to create a wide area network that would connect the DOD sites at the Pentagon, Cheyenne Mountain and Strategic Air Command.
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The idea the everyone in the world could be interconnected by an "electronic nervous system" and the properties of how the message is provided (like the paper it is printed on) has as much effect as the information it provides" were ideas of Marshall McLuhan,
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Lawrence Robets and Thomas Merrill connected two computers together over a telephone connection and exchanged a packet of data between California and Mass.
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ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the world's first operational packet switching network .On this day it went into operation.
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Sometime in late 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. He sent the message to himself from one machine to another
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Norway and London, England were the first countries outside the US to connect to the ARPANET. Other countries in Europe followed.
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is designed as the rules that will be used to communicate on a network
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Queen Elizabeth sends her first email frrom an Army Base, no other details were ever released
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the first apple computer was built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in a garage.
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starting in 1977, games were being played on the APRANET
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The number of researchers now able to use email has gone of 100
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the internet was a connection of other networks all combined
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It took about 10 years from design to actually using these rules.
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The National Science Foundation started building supercomputer centers for high speed computer networks
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A writer named William Gibson uses the word cyberrspace for the first time
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Domain Name System (DNS) is created. This will identify the network the different web addresses use. Examples are .com, .org, and .edu.
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Quantum Computer Services, changes its name to America Online(AOL), is created and started. AOL providess email, electronic bulletin boards, news. -
over 100,000 users of the internet is reached
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The World Wide Web is a new way to provide information of the internet, it uses hypertext. Hypertext allows one document to be connected to another. This changes the way the internet can be used.
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Jean Armour Polly makes up the saying "surfing the Internet."
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Microsoft invents there first search program
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over 45 million people are now using the internet
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Google is started as a internet search engine
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a college student named Shawn Fanning invents Napster, a computer application that allows people to share music over the internet without cost Read more: Internet Timeline — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193167.html#ixzz1lfSzFUY2
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the number of uses of the internet is over half a billion
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Mark Zuckerberg a Harvard University student starts a social media website on the Harvard campus.
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Youtube is started as a website to share videos
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the number of users of Facebook goes over 850 million
