when was the internet started
History of the Internet
The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s.
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Overmyer Ferdinand Marcos Industrial Revolution Tesla Autopilot MTS system architecture Cold War Steam (service) Internet Governance Forum Bulletin board system Gab (social network) Radar in World War II Social networking service Internet censorship in China Web 2.0 News History of the United States Steele dossier Education in China Timeline of global surveillance disclosures (2013–present) Information security German radio intelligence operations during World War II American frontier History of socialism Criticism of Amazon Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election List of Assassin's Creed characters T-Mobile US United Kingdom–United States relations Computer Aircraft in fiction History of Detroit WikiLeaks Lenovo Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand South African Border War Huawei Tor (network) Nuclear program of Iran Transport Layer Security Streaming media Blueberry (comics) Nothing Records E-government Open energy system models Latin America Role of Christianity in civilization History of Mexican Americans History of France History of the United States government Ethics of technology Starlink French Resistance Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State Denial-of-service attack Superstation Windows 10 Socialism Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom History of Missouri Social software History of science Vilnius History of Guatemala Chernobyl disaster Light in painting Oddworld Inhabitants Value-form History of the United Kingdom Nintendo Switch Michael Heseltine Bluetooth HBO Acorn Computers List of Pokémon anime characters FidoNet Reception of WikiLeaks Iran–Iraq War History of Poland (1945–1989) ASEAN Google X.25 Civil rights movement Brain–computer interface Native Americans in the United States Fiber-optic communication Augmented reality Italian Americans MIDI Authoritarian socialism Personal computer History of the Labour Party (UK) COVID-19 misinformation Mass surveillance Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Soviet Union History of the Netherlands Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration History of Austria New Deal Forests Commission Victoria List of modern great powers Marketing communications Communications in Iran Digital Equipment Corporation 2000s Economy of China Internet age 3D printing OSI model List of built-in macOS apps Microsoft Reddit Internet Standard UMTS United States labor law Mohammad Reza Pahlavi History of HBO Flint water crisis First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency Internet Protocol television Christchurch Transport Board Contract United Kingdom enterprise law 2007–2008 financial crisis HTTP John von Neumann Xi Jinping Hypertext Transfer Protocol Globalization Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Federal Communications Commission Italy Technological and industrial history of the United States Windows Vista networking technologies Internet service provider European debt crisis Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Iran–United States relations List of Google April Fools' Day jokes Israeli occupation of the West Bank Greece BlackBerry Limited Signals intelligence operational platforms by nation Section 230 History of mobile phones History of the nude in art Science and technology in Israel Political positions of John McCain Acorn Electron Economic history of Portugal Pornography Donald Trump Telegram (software) Halt and Catch Fire (TV series) Social media use by Donald Trump Armies in the American Civil War Science and technology in Venezuela Timeline of events associated with Anonymous Maritime history of California WHOIS Technological convergence University of Pennsylvania Criticism of Google PRISM (surveillance program) Cultural impact of Madonna Political positions of Susan Collins Political positions of Elizabeth Warren Slavery in ancient Rome History of the Philippines List of characters in the Breaking Bad franchise Firefox version history Guatemalan Civil War List of historical acts of tax resistance Russia under Vladimir Putin Edward Snowden Lithuania 44th Medical Brigade Cyberwarfare Miscegenation History of Apple Inc. Criticism of Huawei 2003 invasion of Iraq Internet in the United States Israel–United States relations Home computer Linux kernel Generation Z World War II by country Neoliberalism Fracking in the United States Cold War (1953–1962) List of The Great Food Truck Race episodes Telecommunications in India Foreign internal defense Portugal Fidel Castro Video game Steve Jobs Funkabwehr History of Poland Social media marketing TikTok Voicemail Nokia Literacy United States Agency for International Development Dell Pakistan Foreign relations of Israel AOL IPv4 address exhaustion Economy of India WGN-TV Genetically modified food controversies Google Chrome Prestel North Korea History of United States foreign policy British Caledonian Instant messaging Financial crisis of 2007–2008 Moldova Sprint Corporation Political positions of Ron Paul Walmart Reading Border Gateway Protocol Digital divide Legal aspects of file sharing Geographic information system Political positions of Mitt Romney WGN America History of Poles in the United States Hubble Space Telescope Microsoft PowerPoint New Mexico Indian Armed Forces Internet censorship in India Posts and telecommunications in Lebanon Instagram History of electromagnetic theory Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration Psychology Mobile telephony Surveillance Cluedo (Australian game show) Women in music The Dresden Files characters Women in government Puerto Rico Economy of the United States SCO Group Global Positioning System History of economic thought Internet Protocol version 4 K-pop American Civil Liberties Union Patriot Act Open scientific data Artificial intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Apartheid WhatsApp IOS AppleTalk History of education in the United States History of telecommunication Productivity-improving technologies Reliability of Wikipedia Bell Labs BASIC interpreter List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1955–1959) Women in computing Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic Economy of North Korea Somalia Chinese space program History of Sega Iloilo City HTTP cookie PCI Express Hugo W. Koehler Women in Islam Email BBC Mobile security Confederate States of America Presidency of Joe Biden Passaic station (Erie Railroad) SES S.A. 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Kennedy Baby boomers Red Orchestra (espionage) Education in India Tesla, Inc. Imperial Roman army Education reform Automation Havana History of opera Internet censorship and surveillance in Asia Leon Trotsky Second Life Collective intelligence Mobile technology Project Excalibur Catholic Church sexual abuse cases Windows Vista Economic history of France History of the Southern United States LGBT rights in the United States Internet censorship in Australia Net neutrality by country Progressive Era Joseph Stalin Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020 Domain name Censorship in China History of Nigeria Mikhail Gorbachev Turkey–United States relations Enoch Powell Vladimir Putin Nintendo Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 Mobile phone Health care systems by country Censorship in the United States Presidency of John F. Kennedy Hillary Clinton Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications Laser Massachusetts Institute of Technology List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1960–1969) IEEE 802.1aq Features new to Windows Vista Wireless ad hoc network Online community 2014 Scottish independence referendum Computer-supported cooperative work Strategic management BlackBerry HDMI Zhou Enlai 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre List of The Shield characters History of free and open-source software List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II American imperialism Slavic Native Faith Litigation involving Apple Inc. 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Eisenhower Telstra Lockheed U-2 Riau Islands History of California (1900–present) Sweden Populism Environmental governance History of YouTube Peer-to-peer Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University of Georgia History of Lisbon Telecommunications engineering Papua (province) Digital terrestrial television Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Culture of England Fighter aircraft English land law Moscow Parasocial interaction Reconstruction era List of Mad Men characters Citizen science Health effects of electronic cigarettes Douglas MacArthur Cultural impact of the Beatles Smile (The Beach Boys album) International relations (1814–1919) Indian Space Research Organisation List of films considered the worst TRS-80 Vaccine hesitancy Hard disk drive Digital rhetoric Healthcare in the United States History of slavery Characters of the Metal Gear series Havana Plan Piloto Urban forestry Smart card History of science and technology in Africa Overview of gun laws by nation Adolescence Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Fox News Internet censorship and surveillance in Europe AMPRNet Mass media Emergency communication system Historikerstreit Consumer behaviour Political positions of Donald Trump Pittsburgh Touchpoint Political positions of Joe Biden Imperial examination John French, 1st Earl of Ypres Economy of Morocco France Contemporary history Ion Antonescu List of Facebook features South African criminal law Defamation Light-emitting diode India–United States relations Batman Cyberbullying New Orleans Erwin Rommel Rudy Giuliani Boeing 787 Dreamliner Rafael Viñoly Internet Relay Chat Characters of Casualty Verner W. 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Kodi (software) Keyboard layout History of the graphical user interface Hizb ut-Tahrir Joseph Lister Commodore 64 IPv6 address Point of sale History of the New York City Subway NetWare Tymnet Simulation General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon variants KOCO-TV QAnon Tablet computer Informatics General Scotland Elevator History of Tunisia Domain Name System Security Extensions Border control Personal information management Internet censorship in the United States Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II procurement African Americans Human rights in China Mass surveillance in the United States Hamas UN offensive into North Korea Harold Wilson Hugo Chávez Concorde Network address translation African-American history History of libraries Communication of the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic California Lutheran University Blockchain Water supply and sanitation in the United States Mircea Eliade Sony Hewlett-Packard History of medicine Optical fiber Microprocessor History of Palestine Mediatization (media) Hispanic and Latino Americans Democracy Education in Haiti South African contract law Advertising Hezbollah armed strength History of AT&T Japan–United States relations Adobe Flash Iran Alt-right Hip hop (culture) Fuzzy concept Detroit Chicano San Francisco COBOL Digital divide in the United States Sociology History of UK immigration control Star Trek: The Motion Picture Sexual harassment Camera phone Passive optical network 6555th Aerospace Test Group Andreas Hillgruber Lobbying in the United States Rock Machine MC criminal allegations and incidents History of Israel British Raj Saint Helena History of the Democratic Party (United States) Nigeria Mass surveillance in China Trump administration family separation policy Identity document Human rights in the United Kingdom Windows 8 History of private equity and venture capital Digital Revolution Lyndon B. 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Roosevelt Leopard 2 List of websites founded before 1995 Virtual team Mexican Revolution Spotify History of the socialist movement in the United States Charles Lindbergh Gender disparity in computing Austin, Texas Marriage Historiography of the British Empire Guantanamo Bay detention camp Shinzo Abe East Germany No Man's Sky September 11 attacks Fish for finance Social enterprise Star Wars (film) Officers' Association File system Space colonization High-speed rail Nazism Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis Police brutality by country New Age Economy of Egypt Univision Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet Laptop Lumumba Government Chain Home 1996 California Proposition 218 Firefox TBS (American TV channel) RT (TV network) Fascism and ideology History of CBS Ethiopia Mitt Romney Loot box United States involvement in regime change National Capital FreeNet Hip hop music History of Wikipedia Wales Quebec Internet censorship Decentralization Central Philippine University Creativity History of email Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union Piracy List of Regular Show characters Deep learning History of propaganda History of animation Nelson Mandela Electronic music History of anthropology by country Lesbian Zero-configuration networking History of technology List of Alex Rider characters Kashmir conflict Labor history of the United States Esports Economy car History of Cumbria Physiological effects in space Disney's Animated Storybook History of scuba diving Estonia Taiwanese indigenous peoples List of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul characters Military history of Canada Search for extraterrestrial intelligence Cryptography Christopher Evans (outlaw) List of Garo characters Global financial system Steam locomotive Flash memory LGBT movements in the United States Premiership of Jason Kenney Willys MB Dhananjaya Y. 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