by Charles Kimball, EME2040

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Internet Milestones
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July 1945

• Vannevar Bush, the director of the Office of
  Scientific Research Development, writes an
  article in The Atlantic Monthly about a system of
  interconnected information access (As We May
  Think).

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1958

• US government establishes the Advanced Research
  Projects Agency (ARPA) to promote advances in
  science and technology. This is in response to
  the Soviet Unions 1957 launch of Sputnik I.

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1962, 1965

• Proposals are made at ARPA to build a computer
  network, for defensive purposes, but not until
  1967 does ARPA agree to do it.

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1969

• ARPANet is launched, with four nodes
  (connections)
• UCLA
• Stanford
• University of California at Santa Barbara
• University of Utah

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1969

• Compuserve is founded as a time-sharing system,
  allowing various people to use an insurance
  companys mainframe computer.
• In 1979 CompuServe began offering technical
  support, e-mail, and electronic discussion groups
  to personal computer users with a modem.

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1971

• Ray Tomlinson invents the first two e-mail
  programs for ARPANet
• SNDMSG
• READMAIL

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1973

• ARPANet gets its first international connections
• University College of London
• Norwegian Royal Radar Establishment

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1974

• Vince Cerf invents TCP/IP, the system for
  transmitting data across the Internet that is
  still used today.

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1979

• Two graduate students at Duke University, Jim
  Ellis Tom Truscott, create USENET, the oldest
  bulletin board system still in use.

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1986

• The National Science Foundation establishes
  NSFNET, a network for schools, government
  offices, military bases and research
  laboratories. Top speed is 56Kbps.

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1989

• By now Compuserve has 500,000 users. Together
  with MCI, it launches the first commercial e-mail
  service.

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1990

• Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European
  Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in
  Switzerland, creates and launches the World Wide
  Web.

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1993

• America Online opens its private e-mail service
  to the Internet. Within a few years AOL becomes
  the largest Internet service provider (ISP), and
  even buys the one it replaced, Compuserve.
• Mark Andreessen invents Mosaic, the first browser
  that can view graphics.

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1994

• David Filo and Jerry Yang, two graduate students
  at Stanford, create Yahoo!, the first search
  engine.
• Mark Andreessen creates Netscape, the oldest
  browser still in use today.

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Also 1994

• The first unsolicited commercial ad (spam)
  appears in Usenet newsgroups -- an ad for
  immigration services from the legal firm Canter
  Siegel. By the end of the decade, spammers ruin
  Usenet as a useful communications platform, by
  stuffing the groups with countless unwanted
  advertisements.

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1995

• E-commerce is born with the launching of
  Amazon.com and eBay. Today they are the most
  successful companies on the Internet.

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1996

• Microsoft launches Internet Explorer. Two years
  later it replaces Netscape as the most popular
  browser.

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1998-1999

• The best years for the high-tech industry. Stock
  in those companies is ridiculously overpriced.
• Google is launched in 1998. A year later it
  becomes the most popular search engine.
• Companies compete to build the most popular
  portal pages.
• Online shopping becomes big business. Toys-R-Us
  gets so many Christmas orders for 1999 that it
  cant deliver them on time.

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2000

• The dreaded Y2K bug fails to destroy computers
  and civilization.
• The US Justice Departments anti-trust suit
  against Microsoft causes the whole high-tech
  industry to go bust.
• 17 dot-coms advertise at the Superbowl. A year
  later, only 7 of them are still in business.

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2001

• AOL buys Time-Warner in one of the largest
  corporate mergers ever. Over the next year,
  however, the new mega-corporation loses nearly
  100 billion.
• Introduction of blogs (weblogs, online diaries).

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2003

• Spam now makes up more than 50 of all e-mail
  (Boo!).
• Internet Explorer peaks, with 96 of all people
  on the Internet using it. Afterwards it suffers
  from various problems, especially hackers and
  viruses, caused by old software.

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2004

• The 2004 presidential election is dramatically
  affected by the New Media
• Howard Dean raises most of his money online.
• Conservative online journals like The Drudge
  Report and Newsmax.
• Websites like Moveon.org, and forums like
  FreeRepublic.com.
• Blogs like Instapundit.

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2005

• Spyware and phishing become greater threats to
  users than viruses and spam.
• Google.com is now the most popular page on the
  Internet, allowing Google to compete with
  Microsoft and AOL.

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