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jan 1, 1982 - First Public WAN Initiated

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Teus Hagen initiates the European Unix Network (EUnet) as the EUUG dial-up service, which becomes the first public wide area network in Europe, serving four initial “backbones.”

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jan 1, 1982
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~ 43 years ago