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First Wide Area Computer Network
Lawrence G Roberts and Thomas Merrill connected a computer is Massachusetts to a computer in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first wide area computer network
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ARPANET Connects 4 Nodes
ARPANET successfully runs on packet switching and connects 4 nodes, starting the Internet -
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First Packets Sent on ARPANET
Charley Kline at UCLA sent the first packets on ARPANET trying to connect to Stanford Research Institute Link text -
E-mail @
E-mail was created by Ray Tomlinson at BBN and he developed the @ symbol to link username and address. Link text -
First Modern Email Program
The first modern email program was developed by John Vittal, a programmer at the University of Southern California. The biggest technological advance this program made was the addition of “Reply” and “Forward” functionality. Link text -
Usenet Newsgroup Sites
Usenet newsgroup sites are built by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis creating the first virtual communities
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TCP/IP
Arpanet computers switch over to TCP/IP developed by Vinton Cerf at Stanford and Bob Kahn at DARPA
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World Wide Web
Tim Berners Lee at CERN proposed the World Wide Web protocol, based on the hypertext system.
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Commercialization
Commercialization of the internet appeared and secure sockets layer encryption was developed by Netscape to make online transactions safer
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Google
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Skype
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