10 Interesting Fact About The science and technology behind the internet and its development

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• The internet was first developed in the 1960s by the United States Department of Defense as a means of inter-military communication.
• The concept of the internet network used today, namely TCP/IP, was first developed in the 1970s by Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf.
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique address for each web page found on the internet, and was first introduced in 1991.
• The web browser was first introduced in 1990 by the Berners-Lee team, a British computer scientist who also created the World Wide Web.
• The term surfing (surfing) on the internet was first created by Jean Armour Polly in 1992.
• In 1994, Yahoo! Launched as the first successful search engine on the internet.
• Google, the most popular search engine today, was launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
• In 2003, MySpace was launched and became the first successful social network on the internet.
• Facebook, the largest social network at the moment, was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.
• Cloud Computing Technology, which allows data storage and access through the internet, was first introduced in 2006 by Amazon Web Services.