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UNC Students!



What do UNC students and coke 
bottles have in common?

They're both empty from the neck up.

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  1. 1969 - ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes
    online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities.
    Designed for research, education, and government
    organizations, it provides a communications network linking
    the country in the event that a military attack destroys
    conventional communications systems.

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    1972 - Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a
    Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to
    distinguish between the sender's name and network name in
    the email address.

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    1982 - The word “Internet” is used for the first time.

    1984 - Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with
    network addresses identified by extensions such as .com,
    .org, and .edu. Writer William Gibson coins the term
    “cyberspace.”

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  2. 1985 - Quantum Computer Services, which later changes its
    name to America Online, debuts. It offers email, electronic
    bulletin boards, news, and other information.

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    1989 - The World (world.std.com) debuts as the first
    provider of dial-up Internet access for consumers. Tim
    Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle
    Physics) develops a new technique for distributing
    information on the Internet. He calls it the World Wide
    Web.

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    1995 - CompuServe, America Online, and Prodigy start
    providing dial-up Internet access. Sun Microsystems
    releases the Internet programming language called Java.

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