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Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on September 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other "nodes" joined the fledgling network.



Then came e-mail a few years later, a core communications protocol called TCP/IP in the late 1970s, the domain name system in the 1980s and the World Wide Web -- now the second most popular application behind e-mail -- in 1990. The Internet expanded beyond its initial military and educational domain into businesses and homes around the world.

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USA's Matthew Emmons signals to officials that he fired his gun during the final round of the men's 50m rifle 3 position finals Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. But instead of aiming at his target, he fired at another competitor's target. The error sent the marksman from a first place gold medal to last.

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