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History of the internet
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20 Jan 2020
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Twitter created
Sputnik 1 launches
Rand Coperation propses a new information network so that the USA could sucessfully communicate after a nuclear war
Ray Samuel Tomlinson implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system
Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase "The World Wide Web"
The Term "Internet" begins to be used
Al Gore coins the term for the Internet "The Information Superhighway"
Comet the first commercial email software, is offered by the Computer Corporation of america for $40,000
Google bought youtube for US$1.65 billion
Youtube founded
Google founded
Facebook bought whatsapp for $16 billion
Facebook founded
SLAC became the first web server on the internet
Internet registration begins for ".com" ".net" ".org",".edu" and ".gov"
Photo sharing website Flikr was born
eBay aquires Skype for $2.6 billion
Rupert Murdoch buys Intermix Media owner of Myspace.com for $580 million
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