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The origins of the Internet ability aback to analysis of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government to body robust, fault-tolerant, and broadcast computer networks. The allotment of a new US courage by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as able-bodied as clandestine allotment for added bartering backbones, led to common accord in the development of new networking technologies, and the alliance of abounding networks.
The commercialisation of what was by the 1990s an all-embracing arrangement resulted in its popularisation and assimilation into about every aspect of avant-garde animal life.
As of June 2012, added than 2.4 billion bodies - over a third of the world's animal citizenry - accept acclimated the casework of the Internet.
Let's booty a attending at some of the path-breaking milestones in the Internet's journey.
Source: The Economist
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AOL launches burning messaging services
Year: 1997
Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, AOL has franchised its casework to companies in several nations about the apple or set up all-embracing versions of its services. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York.
As of October 2012, it serves 2.9 actor paid and chargeless calm (US) subscribers.
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Google founded
Year: 1998
Google is an American bunch association that provides Internet-related accessories and services, including Internet search, billow computing, software and announcement technologies. Announcement revenues from AdWords accomplish about all of the company's profits.
The aggregation was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both abounding Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 per cent of the company's stake.
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Cable operators lay new lines
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Year: 2000
A abysmal communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed amid land-based stations to backpack telecommunication signals beyond stretches of ocean. The aboriginal abysmal communications cables, laid in the 1850s, agitated telegraphy traffic. Subsequent ancestors of cables agitated blast traffic, again abstracts communications traffic.
Modern cables use optical fibre technology to backpack agenda data, which includes telephone, Internet and clandestine abstracts traffic.
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Launch of Wikipedia
Year: 2000
Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, chargeless Internet album accurate by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 24 actor articles, over 4.1 actor in the English Wikipedia, are accounting collaboratively by volunteers about the world.
Almost all of its accessories can be edited by anyone with admission to the site, and it has about 100,000 alive contributors. As of February 2013, there are editions of Wikipedia in 285 languages.
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Online file-sharing starts
Year: 2001
File administration is the convenance of distributing or accouterment admission to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents, or cyberbanking books. It may be implemented through a array of ways.
Common methods of storage, chiral and burning accommodate chiral administration utilising disposable media, centralised servers on computer networks, Apple Advanced Web-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of broadcast peer-to-peer networking.
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Launch of Skype
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Year: 2003
Skype was aboriginal appear in 2003 accounting by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had additionally originally developed Kazaa.
It developed into a belvedere with over 600 actor users and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion.
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YouTube founded
Year: 2004
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three above PayPal advisers in February 2005, on which users can upload, appearance and allotment videos. The aggregation is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to affectation a advanced array of user-generated video content, including cine clips, TV clips, and music videos, as able-bodied as abecedarian agreeable such as video blogging, abbreviate aboriginal videos, and educational videos.
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Netflix starts alive videos
Year: 2006
Netflix is an American provider of on-demand Internet alive media in North and South America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and collapsed amount DVD-by-mail in the United States, area mailed DVDs are beatific via Permit Reply Mail.
The aggregation was accustomed in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription-based agenda administration account in 1999 and by 2009 it was alms a accumulating of 100,000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 actor subscribers.
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Cable operators advancement infrastructure
Year: 2007
Optical fibre can be acclimated as a average for telecommunication and computer networking because it is adjustable and can be arranged as cables. It is abnormally advantageous for long-distance communications, because ablaze propagates through the fibre with little abrasion compared to electrical cables. This allows continued distances to be spanned with few repeaters.
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Facebook alcove 250 actor users
Year: 2009
Facebook is a amusing networking account launched in February 2004, endemic and operated by Facebook. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion alive users, added than bisected of them appliance Facebook on a adaptable device.
Users charge annals afore appliance the site, afterwards which they may actualize a claimed profile, add added users as friends, and barter messages, including automated notifications back they amend their profile.
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Launch of iPad
Year: 2010
The iPad is a band of book computers advised and marketed by Apple, which runs on Apple's iOS operating system.
The aboriginal iPad was appear on April 3, 2010; the best contempo iPad models, the fourth-generation iPad and iPad Mini, were appear on November 2, 2012.
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App downloads hits 40 billion
Year: 2012
Application software, additionally accepted as an appliance or an app, is computer software advised to advice the user to accomplish specific tasks.
Examples accommodate action software, accounting software, appointment suites, cartoon software and media players.
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