Read these landmarks in the history of the Internet and prepare at least five questions in the past simple. Example: What happened in 1969? What did Ray Tamlinson do in 1971?

1969 — The US Defense Department establishes ARPANET, a network connecting research centres.
1971 — Ray Tomlinson of BBN invents an email program to send messages across a network. The @ sign is chosen for its at meaning.
1981 — BM sells the first IBM PC. BITNET provides email and file transfers to universities.
1982 — TCP/IP is adopted as the standard language of the Intemet.
1988 — Jarkko Oikarinen develops the system known as Intemet Relay Chat (IRC).

1991 ~ CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) creates the World Wide Web.
1998 — The Intemet 2 network is bom. It can handle data and video at high speed but is not a public network
1999 — Online banking, e-commerce and MP3 music become popular.
2001 — Napster, whose softwere allows users to share downloaded music, maintains that it does not perpetrate or encourage music piracy. However, a judge rules that Napster technology is an infringement of music ‘copyright.
2004 — Network Solutions begins offering 100-year domain registration.
2006 — Americans spend over $100 billion shopping online.

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