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USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
launches Sputnik
 first artificial earth satellite
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In response, the United States forms the
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
 military
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US studying how it could maintain its
command and control over its missiles and
bombers, in the event of a nuclear attack
 decentralized
 counter-attack
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The first node is connected to the internet's
military ancestor, ARPANET
ARPANET was intended to be America's
bomb-proof communications network at the
height of the Cold War
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Project Gutenberg to make copyright-free
works electronically available.
◦ The first is the US declaration of independence
◦ Michael Hart
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Bolt Beranek and Ray Tomlinson invent email
◦ used ARPANET to send messages between sites
◦ Within a year, three quarters of ARPANET traffic is
email
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University College of London becomes one of
the first international connections to
ARPANET
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Internet newsgroups are born
◦ Rick Adams
◦ software enabling news transmission, posting and
reading using internet
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The first internet worm is unleashed
◦ Robert Morris
◦ infects about 6000 computers
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Tim Berners-Lee and the team at CERN invent
the World Wide Web
◦ made information easier to publish and access on
the internet
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Marc Andreesen launches the web-browser
Mosaic.
◦ HTML tags and more sophisticated image
capabilities.
◦ Mosaic was the first web browser
◦ Andreesen goes on to develop the Netscape web
browser
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Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide
Web is renamed Yahoo!
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Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com, an online
bookseller
Known as the “pioneer of ecommerce”
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eBay is launched to enable Internet users to
trade with each other.
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Google arrives.
◦ Google's simple design is soothing while existing
search engines cram their pages with animated
adverts.
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Shawn Fanning launches Napster.
◦ The peer-to-peer software enables internet users
to swap MP3 music files stored on their computers
and to find each other through a central directory
◦ Record labels are furious. By July 2001, they had
effectively stopped Napster.
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The dotcom bust.
◦ Many of these businesses failed to find a market
and others realize they didn't have a business plan
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As broadband becomes more popular, media
companies start selling music and video
online.
◦ Napster re-launches as a paid music download
store.
◦ It's up against iTunes
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What has happened since???
Give me Five examples of significant events or
inventions in the advancement of the Internet or the
World Wide Web since 2004. Write a paragraph for
each event (complete sentences please). The
paragraph should answer the following questions:
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What is the event?
Who is responsible for the event?
Why is it important?
When did it take place?