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the first artificial earth ARPA awarded the The first e-mail program was
satellite was launchedby ARPANET contract to BBN. created by Ray Tomlinson of
USSR. In response BBN had selected a BBN.
Advanced Research Honeywell minicomputer The Advanced Research Projects
Projects Agency (ARPA) as the base on which they Agency (ARPA) was renamed The
was created by the USA would build the switch. The Defense Advanced Research
physical network was Projects Agency (or DARPA)
constructed in 1969, linking ARPANET was currently using the
four nodes: University of Network Control Protocol or NCP
California at Los Angeles, to transfer data. This allowed
SRI (in Stanford), University communications between hosts
of California at Santa running on the same network.
Barbara, and University of
Utah. The network was
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Cerf and Bob Kahn in paper on Metclalfe. It allowed coaxical cable to move created by Steve Bellovin, a graduate
Transmission Control Protocol. data faster than ever. LANs developed. The University of North Carolina, Tom Tru
packet satellite project went into use. SATNET, programmer and Jim Ellis. It was bas
Atlantic packet Satellite network was born. UUCP. The creation of BITNET, by IBM
Europe was linked to United States. It used its Time Network), introduced the "st
satellites owned by a consortium of countries forward" network. Originally was use
and not exclusive to the USA goverment. and listservs.
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alized news group network was A decentralized news group network was created IBM and MCI formed a non profit
Steve Bellovin, a graduate from the by Steve Bellovin, a graduate from the University of called ANS, Advanced Network &
of North Carolina, Tom Truscott, a North Carolina, Tom Truscott, a programmer and main endevor was to conduct rese
er and Jim Ellis. It was based on Jim Ellis. It was based on UUCP. The creation of speed networking. It developed t
e creation of BITNET, by IBM (Because BITNET, by IBM (Because its Time Network), 45 Mbps line. NSF quickly adopte
etwork), introduced the "store and introduced the "store and forward" network. network and by the end of 1991 a
network. Originally was used for email Originally was used for email and listservs. were connected by this new backb
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MCI formed a non profit corporation Yahoo was created. Yhoo was the first
, Advanced Network & Services,which search internet engine. Ten, Vice
vor was to conduct research into high President Al Gore coined the term "
working. It developed the concept T3, a Information Superhighway"
ne. NSF quickly adopted the new
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of April 30th, 1995 it would no longer allow direct Every day a new feature i
access to the NSF backbone. The National Science better the opportunities
Foundation contracted with four companies that google, PayPal and NetFli
would be providers of access to the NSF backbone public.
(Merit). These companies would sell connections to
groups, companies and other organizations. The
annual fee was $50.00 for domains, excluding .edu
and .gov which were still founded by the NAtional
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a new feature is created to enhance and
opportunities on the Web. In 1998
yPal and NetFlix were introduced to the