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Sputnik was developed by the Soviet Union. Sputnik was the first artificial earth satellite to be developed and launched.
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Department of Defense issued a $19,800 contract for the purpose of studying the design and specification of a computer network. From this study grew the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). JW
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"In 1968, $563,000 was committed to a contract with the purpose of designing, constructing, installing, testing, and maintaining four interface message processors (IMPS) that would link computers at the Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Utah. JW
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On this date in 1969, on the second try, IMPS installed at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute connected and began a communication revolution with the words "log in." JW
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ARPANET was the first network to run similar to the way the Internet runs today. On this date computers connected between Stanford University and UCLA for the first time in history. LM
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Email was first developed by Ray Tomlinson. He made the decision to use the @ symbol in email. It was originally intended to separate the user name from the computer name, which later on became the domain name instead. (Note: Not sure of the exact date, but it was late fall/early winter 1971) LM
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The @ sign was chosen from the punctuation keys on Tomlinson's Model 33 teletype for its "at" meaning. (Jacqueline A.)
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During 1973-1974 Robert Metcalfe developed the Ethernet technology which allows computers to be linked to a network through cables. LM
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In 1977 the first ever PC modem was developed by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington. LM
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Scott Fahlmann used the first emoticon :-) in 1979 after a joke. LM
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During this year, the Internet was established as a technology to support a broad community of research and development and began to expand to higher education. (Date not exact)
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America Online was launched out of the Applelink program. This system popularized the Internet amoung the average users. LM
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In 1990 the World Wide Web protocols were written by Tim Berners-Lee along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. LM
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All restrictions on commercial use of the Internet were lifted. JW
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In 1991 the first web page was created to explain what the world wide web was all about. The first web cam was also created this year to monitor the coffee pot at Cambridge University so people wouldn't make a trip back and forth to an empty pot. LM
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The White House and United Nations came online in 1993, creating the .gov and .org domain names. LM
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On January 17, 1998 the Drudge Report broke the news story of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal online instead of through traditional media. LM
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Google launched on September 4, 1998, changing the way people found information online for good. LM
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Between 2000 and 2001, broadband subscriptions rose over 50 percent, with an additional 48 percent growth in 2003. JW
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Wikipedia is launched in 2001 paving the way for collective web content and social media. LM
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Myspace eventually became the most popular social media site after launching in 2003. LM
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The Facebook was launched for college students in February of 2004. Later on "the" was dropped from the title and the site was open to the public. LM
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YouTube was launched in 2005 offering the options of free online videos and sharing to the public. LM
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In 2006, Twitter launched to the public opening up the option of to the minute postings from users across the world. LM
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The releasing of Apple's iPhone in 2007 brought a whole new renewed interest in mobile web applications and designs. LM
