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  2. Protocol Wars - Wikipedia

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    In practice, use of the Internet suite of email protocols (SMTP, POP and IMAP) grew rapidly. [186] The invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, as an application on the Internet, [187] brought many social and commercial uses to what was previously a network of networks for academic and research institutions.

  3. Internet protocol suite - Wikipedia

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    The migration of the ARPANET from NCP to TCP/IP was officially completed on flag day January 1, 1983, when the new protocols were permanently activated. [ 30 ] [ 34 ] In 1985, the Internet Advisory Board (later Internet Architecture Board ) held a three-day TCP/IP workshop for the computer industry, attended by 250 vendor representatives ...

  4. Flag day (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A flag day, as used in system administration, is a change which requires a complete restart or conversion of a sizable body of software or data.The change is large and expensive, and—in the event of failure—similarly difficult and expensive to reverse.

  5. January 1 - Wikipedia

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    1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet. [85] 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T. [86]

  6. AT&T Information Systems - Wikipedia

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    On January 1, 1983, a year prior to the final breakup of the Bell System in 1984, American Bell Advanced Information Systems (AIS) was launched as an unregulated AT&T subsidiary with a mission to directly challenge IBM in the communications/computer space.

  7. New York Native - Wikipedia

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    On May 18, 1981, the New York Native, then America's most influential gay newspaper, published the first newspaper report on the disease that became known as AIDS.Having heard of a very rare type of pneumonia that struck some gay men, Lawrence D. Mass, the paper's medical writer, called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was advised that the rumors of a "gay cancer" were ...

  8. History of email - Wikipedia

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    ARPANET switched to TCP/IP on January 1, 1983 and the Internet grew rapidly thereafter (see Protocol Wars). A new mail transfer agent based on SMTP, Sendmail, was introduced in 1983. SMTP use continued to grow on the Internet. After the introduction of the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1985, mail routing was updated in January 1986 by RFC 974.

  9. Digital divide - Wikipedia

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    [87] The internet became officially available for public use on January 1, 1983; anyone born before then has had to adapt to the new age of technology. [88] On the contrary, people born after 1983 are considered "digital natives". Digital natives are defined as people born or brought up during the age of digital technology. [87]