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The Internet had revolutionalized how people live and the way things are to be. Know more about some trivia about the Internet and some machines:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was considered the father of the World Wide Web while Vinton Cerf was hailed as the father of the Internet when he co-authored with Dr. Robert Kahn in 1973, a published paper which introduced the words "TCP and IP.
In 1982, The word "lnternet"is used for the first time, short for "internetwork".
Ray Tomlinson, introduced elec-tronic mail in 1972. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the e-mail address.
Hotmail was launched on July 4, 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. They later sold it to Microsoft for an estimated price of $385 million.
Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeroes.'
The Apple iTunes music store was introduced in the spring of 2003. It allows people to download songs for an affordable 99 cents each.
Jeff Bezos A Web site named Cadabra created by Jeff Bezos was later named as amazon.com.
Archie was considered the first search engine created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a native of Canada.
The term "bug" usually known nowadays as viruses was probably coined after Admiral Grace Hopper.
