... , "Lonesome Internet Blues, Take 2," Salon.com 18 Feb 2000, 3 Mar 2000 http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/02/18/stanford_study/index 3. Bob Gunn, "Making Clones Among Us," Santa Barbara News Press, 30 Apr. 2000: G1 4. Gil Schwartz, "The Net: It's the Unreal Thing," Computer Life 2.7 (1995): 65 5. Joe Chidley, "Cyber Time: Living by the Credo "Boot Up, Log ... , "Romance on the Net," An International Home for Internet Romance 13 June 1998, 24 Feb. 2000 http://www.soft.net.uk/ashford/iromance/olymp.htm. 8. Ann Landers, "Dear Ann Landers," Santa Barbara News Press 30 Mar, 2000: D 2. ...

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... 1997, Sears launched its Craftsman Tools web site (News & History - Historical Chronology 1). Sears entered the online sales fray. Every child remembers Christmas when they were little. We wrote letters to Santa listing in great detail all the toys we wished he would bring because we had most assuredly been the best little boys and girls in the world all year. Many ... ...

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... as the base on which they would build the switch. The physical network was constructed by the end of 1969 during the Vietnam War, linking four nodes: University of California Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, the University of Utah and the University of California Los Angeles. In 1972, the first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson of BBN. ARPAnet was ... ...

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... Internet. The U.S. defense department hired ARPA, and they first connected computers at Stanford Research Institute in California, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the University of Utah (Microsoft Encarta 98). This original network, which was the very first computer network, was called ARPANET (ARPA NETwork). The developers built ARPANET with ... ...

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... . The second node was established at Stanford University and launched on October first of the same year. On November 1, 1969, the third node was located at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the fourth was opened at the University of Utah in December. By 1971, 15 nodes were linked including BBN, CMU, CWRU, Harvard, Lincoln Lab, MIT, NASA/Ames, RAND ... ...

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... transactions. E-commerce is now the biggest shopping mall in the world where you can buy anything you could ever possibly need from shirts to cereal to your car. Last Christmas, Santa found a new way into the home. Millions of shoppers logged onto the Internet to do their Christmas shopping. They bought books, toys, music, and other gifts from computers hooked up ... ...

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... discussed the first plans for the ARPANET in 1967. Researchers at four United States campuses created the first hosts of the ARPANET in 1969 connecting Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. Between 1970 and 1973, the ARPANET was a success even though it was designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers. Email quickly ... ...

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