"Life on the Internet: Timeline"

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By: Public Broadcasting System

Date: 1997

Source: "Life on the Internet: Timeline." PBS Online, 1997. Available online at http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/timeline-txt.html; website home page: http://www.pbs.org (accessed June 4, 2003).

About the Organization: Founded in 1969 the Public Broadcasting System is a non-profit corporation consisting of a network of public television stations across the United States which broadcasts quality educational and news programs. It maintains an extensive Internet site to accompany its programs and provide balanced information on significant events in American culture.

Introduction

In the late 1960s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created a small system of networked computers that would allow...

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