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50 Years of the Internet

50 Years of the Internet. By Charlie Oliver. 1960s. 1969: The ARPANET – First version of Internet by American Defence Agency. Only four small groups of computers networked for the first time. Why? To protect America from nuclear threats. 1970s.

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50 Years of the Internet

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  1. 50 Years of the Internet By Charlie Oliver

  2. 1960s

  3. 1969: The ARPANET – First version of Internet by American Defence Agency • Only four small groups of computers networked for the first time • Why? To protect America from nuclear threats

  4. 1970s

  5. 1972: First email sent. Ray Tomlinson wrote the email program. • @ symbol introduced for the first time • 1978: The first SPAM email message was sent to 320 people on the ARPANET network.

  6. 1980s

  7. 1982: Smileys (emoticons) were introduced :) :( ;) :P :D XD 0.o :o 8) :’( ▲ 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web

  8. 1990s

  9. 1994 Yahoo kicks off the first internet email website • 1995 Amazon.com and eBay become first online shops • 1996: Internet Explorer and Netscape compete to be top internet browser

  10. 1998: • Charlie Oliver is born • And so is Google

  11. 2000s

  12. 2001 Wikipedia is introduced • 2004 Broadband becomes more used than dial up • More than 1 million searches on Google each day • 2008: 71% of businesses say they can’t survive one day without the internet

  13. Today: • There are over 100 million websites • 75% are businesses • One out of five people access the internet

  14. The Future ?

  15. Connecting through wireless will make the internet even faster • New kinds of computers and programs will make people even more connected through the internet

  16. And here is a brief but funny video I got from the internet. Enjoy!

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