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The internet was created in the 1960s by the United States Department of Defense as a means of communication between the military.
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10 Interesting Fact About The History of the Internet
10 Interesting Fact About The History of the Internet
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The internet was created in the 1960s by the United States Department of Defense as a means of communication between the military.
The original name of the internet is Arpanet, which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
Email is one of the first applications created for the internet in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
The first website that was created on the internet was Info.Cern.CH in 1991.
The term surfing to describe the use of the internet was first used by Mark McCahill in 1992.
The first search engine ever made was Archie, which was made in 1990 by McGill University student, Alan Emtage.
Google, the largest search engine in the world, was first launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
YouTube, the largest video platform in the world, was launched in 2005 by three former Paypal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
Facebook, the largest social media in the world, was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg when he was still studying at Harvard University.
In 2016, more than half of the world's population, around 3.7 billion people, had used the internet.
