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    The Internet originated in 1969 when researchers at UCLA sent the first message between networked computers as part of the ARPANET project funded by the US Department of Defense. It evolved from this initial network connecting a few research institutions to today's worldwide network through major developments like the introduction of TCP/IP in 1974, the commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s, and the launch of influential technologies and companies in the 2000s such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and the iPhone. The Internet has grown exponentially, reaching over half of the world's population and transforming nearly every aspect of modern life.

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    The Internet originated in 1969 when researchers at UCLA sent the first message between networked computers as part of the ARPANET project funded by the US Department of Defense. It evolved from this initial network connecting a few research institutions to today's worldwide network through major developments like the introduction of TCP/IP in 1974, the commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s, and the launch of influential technologies and companies in the 2000s such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and the iPhone. The Internet has grown exponentially, reaching over half of the world's population and transforming nearly every aspect of modern life.

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    The Internet originated in 1969 when researchers at UCLA sent the first message between networked computers as part of the ARPANET project funded by the US Department of Defense. It evolved from this initial network connecting a few research institutions to today's worldwide network through major developments like the introduction of TCP/IP in 1974, the commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s, and the launch of influential technologies and companies in the 2000s such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and the iPhone. The Internet has grown exponentially, reaching over half of the world's population and transforming nearly every aspect of modern life.

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    A simple history of the Internet

    Which came first, the personal computer or the Internet? If you say “personal computer,” guess again.

    The Internet as we know it may not have taken shape until the 1990s, well after Bill Gates revealed his first PC.
    So who invented the Internet? The timeline of the Internet actually traces all the way back to the Vietnam War
    era: 1969, to be exact. In that year, a team of defense engineers at the University of Los Angeles-California
    (UCLA) sent the first-ever instant message via computer to another team thousands of miles away at Stanford
    University.
    From their work station in 3420 Boelter Hall, on the UCLA campus, the defense engineers had just set up the
    first node of Arpanet, a system funded by the Department of Defense’s Advance Research Projects Agency
    (ARPA). ARPA’s vision was for a system that would connect large computers at the Department of Defense’s
    various facilities so that they could share software, information, and storage space. UCLA would be one of its
    four main hubs—the University of Utah, SRI International, and UC-Santa Barbara would be the others.
    In its short history the Internet has rapidly evolved from this simple, four-hub, military-only data grid to a
    planet-wide, universally accessed and accessible informational universe that we know and love today. But let’s
    face it: In history of information technology, a lot can happen in 44 years. Let’s take a look at a simple history
    of the Internet and recap some of the milestones that got us from there to here with a short Internet history
    timeline:

     1974.
    o The word “Internet” first appeared in print—in a DARPA-published Request for Comments
    document on TCP/IP, a new set of communications and networking protocols for managing data
    transmissions on the new system. TCP/IP is still integral to the present-day Internet. In the
    meantime, Arpanet was growing fast as more universities, science centers, and army installations
    got connected.
     1976.
    o Queen Elizabeth of England became the first head of state to send an email. Jimmy Carter
    followed suit and used email several times while campaigning.
     1983.
    o The Domain Name System (DNS) was invented. Whereas site’s names had been obtuse
    sequences of letters and numbers, they would now be easy-to-remember names with endings
    such as .gov, .edu, or .mil.
     1985.
    o The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded construction of Arpanet’s biggest upgrade yet:
    the NSFNET, a command hub of five supercomputers to serve as highways for all data traffic.
    NSFNET could transmit data at 56 kilobits per second—slower than some present-day modems.
     1990.
    o Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and a text browser, as well as a hypertext graphical user
    interface (GUI) browser. Then he established the first successful communication between a
    Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and a server via the Internet. These inventions, put together,
    were the makings of Web pages as we know them today. Lee also made up the term “World
    Wide Web.” The synonym Information Superhighway would follow in a few more years.
     1991.
    o The NSF allowed commercial enterprises to use the Internet for the first time.
     1994.

    Jeff Bezos founded Amazon. A whole new world of e-commerce was born.

     1995.
    o The NSF ceased funding the Internet altogether, leaving it a completely self-sustaining industry.
    Also noteworthy, Sun Microsystems first released Java, still an immensely popular Internet
    programming language to this day.
     1998.
    o Google opened its first office.
     2004-2005.
    o Facebook was launched in December 2004. YouTube debuted the next year. The social-media
    revolution had begun.
     2006.
    o Google CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the term “cloud computing” at an industry conference.
    “The Cloud” would become another synonym for the Internet soon thereafter.
     2007.
    o Mobile and smartphones technologies going commercial and growing rapidly. Consumers would
    no longer need a personal computer to go online. The Internet would be reachable wherever they
    could find a wireless signal.
     2008
    o Google Index reaches 1 trillion URLs. Google launched Chrome. Spotify was found. Apple
    launched App Store. Dozens of space images are transmitted to and from a Nasa science
    spacecraft located more than 32 million km from Earth.
     2009
    o Mobile data traffic exceeded voice traffic every single month. Globally, mobile data exceeded an
    exabyte (a billion gigabytes) for the first time. Foursquare launched – users start “check in” at
    locations all over the world. Kickstarter is founded in April: crowdfunding becomes popular with
    start-ups.
     2010
    o The number of registered domains reaches 200 million. Apple launches iPad. 4G wireless
    networks launches in US. Instagram and Pinterest started. Astronaut T.J. Creamer uploads the
    first tweet from space.
     2011
    o Steve Jobs’s death. The number of Internet users reaches 2 billion. Google+ launched. Microsoft
    buys Skype. The Stop Online Piracy Act is introduced in the US.
     2012
    o Worldwide internet users breaks 2.4 billion. Nasa’s Curiosity Rover checks in on Mars using
    FourSquare.
     2013 – 2015
    o More data was produced than throughout all human history. Apple releases Apple Watch, other
    producers followed – smart watches industry was created. Google releases Google Glasses.
    Microsoft announces the mercy killing of Internet Explorer. Mobile Internet surpasses desktop.
    Almost a half of the world’s populations become Internet users. Superfast Gigablast Internet
    (100 times faster than DSL) is introduced to residential customers.
     2016
    o Donald Trump win of the US presidential elections claimed to be premised on huge digital
    campaign investment. 40% of global internet users, or more than 1 billion people, buy products
    or goods online. Live Streaming goes popular.

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