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ARPA connects 4 major U.S universites, It is design for a research, eductuaction, and goverment organizations.
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Electronic mail is introduced byRay Tomlinson. He uses the @ sign to assign the sender's name and the email address.
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The Transmission control protocol/internet protocol and is the standard for communticating between computers.
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The word "internet" is used for the first time
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a virus called Internet Worm temporaily shuts down cabout 10% of the worlds internet servers.
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the world debuts as the first providerto dial-up access for consumers.
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The first person to be interested to create intenet is Peter Deutsch.
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Mosaic is created by Mac Andeerson. It became the navigation system for the world wide and accounts merely 1% of all internet traffic.
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The white house sends its website www.whitehouse,gov. The word "spamming" is introduced to the internet vocab.
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Sun microsystems release the internet programming language java.
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Now 45 million people are using the internet.
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internet traffic records are broken as the NASA website broadcasts images. The broadcast gets 46 million hits in one day.
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Google opens its first buisness, in California.
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A college student creates a an application called Napster, that allows people yo swap music over rthe internet.
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in the beginning of 1999, 150 million users are using the internet worldwide. (more that 50% United States) -
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MySpace is created
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"E-commernce" is the new buzzword as internet shopping becomes big.
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Viruses are getting a greater frequency. 2 examples are the "Love Bug" and "Stages". Also email messages being sent and recieved have heavy volume and infected many companies.
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Wikipedia is created.
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There are 9.8 million electronic messages are sent daily.
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Napster is released as violating copyright laws and is ordered to stop distruibuting copyright music.
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58.5% of U.S population uses the internet.
WorldWide there are 544.2 million users use the internet.
German media giant bertelsmann cant buy the assets of troubled Napster inc.
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Internet users illegally download 2.6 billion music files each month.
Spam, unsolicited email, becomes a server-clogging menace. It accounts for about half of all emails.
Apple Computer introduces Apple iTunes Music Store.
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Internet Worm called MyDoom or Novarg, goes through internet servers.
1 in 12 email messages are infected.
Online spreading reachers a hgh record, $177 billion. -
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More than 92 million websitea are online.
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6.7 million downloads of music is downloaded per week.
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Online game, World of Warcraft, is created and has 9 million subscribers.
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Software giant Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
Microsoft is fined $1.3 billion by the European Commission for abusing the dominant market position, and failing to comply to their 2004 judgment.
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major protest online in January messes up Congressional support for anti-Web piracy measures.
The goal of both bills is to stop illegal downloading and streaming of TV shows and movies online. Tech industry is worried that the bills will give internet companies alot of power to shut down websites.
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A coding error found in April makes transactions between a computer and a remote secure, makes users open to having their usernames, passwords, and personal information stolen and not hidden and private.
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Computer security experts strongky suggest that computer users should change their passwords.
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Mr. Zuckerberg (Facebook) spoke in the 70th annual U.N. General Assembely Session.
Mr. Zuckerberg goal is to bring the internet to the masses.
He claims universal internet access is a basic human righ tand is a tool to fight global justice.
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