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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
The war is also known under other names , such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, or the First Iraq War, before the term "Iraq War" became identified instead with the 2003 Iraq War (also referred to in the U.S. as "Operation Iraqi Freedom").
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
Kuwait's invasion by Iraqi troops that began 2 August 1990 was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the U.N. Security Council .
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
U.S. President George H. W. Bush deployed U.S. forces into Saudi Arabia , and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
An array of nations joined the Coalition.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
The great majority of the Coalition's military forces were from the U.S., with Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors, in that order.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
Saudi Arabia paid around US$36 billion of the US$60 billion cost.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
The war was marked by the beginning of live news on the front lines of the fight, with the primacy of the U.S. network CNN .
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
The war has also earned the nickname Video Game War after the daily broadcast images on board the U.S. bombers during Operation Desert Storm.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial bombardment on 17 January 1991.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
This was followed by a ground assault on 24 February.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
This was a decisive victory for the Coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
The Coalition ceased their advance, and declared a cease-fire 100 hours after the ground campaign started.
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Q1327
what year was gulf war
Gulf War
Aerial and ground combat was confined to Iraq, Kuwait, and areas on Saudi Arabia's border.
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what year was gulf war
Gulf War
Iraq launched Scud missiles against Coalition military targets in Saudi Arabia and against Israel .
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
The nickel, in American usage, is a five- cent coin issued by the United States Mint .
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What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
Composed of 75% copper and 25% nickel , the piece has been struck since 1866.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
The silver half dime , equal to five cents, had been issued since the 1790s.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
The American Civil War caused economic hardship, driving gold and silver from circulation; in response, in place of low-value coins, the government at first issued paper currency.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
In 1865, Congress abolished the five-cent fractional currency note after Spencer M. Clark , head of the Currency Bureau (today the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ), placed his own portrait on the denomination.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
After successful introduction of two-cent and three-cent pieces , without precious metal, Congress also authorized a five-cent piece consisting of base metal; the Mint began striking this version in 1866.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
The initial design of the Shield nickel was struck until 1883, then replaced by the Liberty Head nickel .
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
The Buffalo nickel was introduced in 1913 as part of a drive to increase the beauty of American coinage; in 1938, the Jefferson nickel followed.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
In 2004 and 2005, special designs in honor of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were issued.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
In 2006, the Mint reverted to using Jefferson nickel designer Felix Schlag 's original reverse (or "tails" side), although a new obverse , by Jamie Franki, was substituted.
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Q1328
What U.S. President's head has been featured on the nickel (five-cent coin) since 1938?
Nickel (United States coin)
As of 2013, it costs more than eleven cents to produce a nickel; the Mint is exploring the possibility of reducing cost by using less expensive metals.
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
A poster with flowers or clusters of flowers produced by twelve species of flowering plants from different families
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what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom , is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta , also called angiosperms).
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs.
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower).
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization ( parthenocarpy ).
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop.
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
Flowers give rise to fruit and seeds.
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
Many flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to be vectors for the transfer of pollen.
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Q1330
what types of trees, flowers, or plants are commonly found in canada
Flower
In addition to facilitating the reproduction of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans to beautify their environment, and also as objects of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing ) F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine , all-weather tactical fighter designed by McDonnell Douglas to gain and maintain air superiority in aerial combat.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
It is considered among the most successful modern fighters, with over 100 aerial combat victories with no losses in dogfights .
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force selected McDonnell Douglas ' design in 1967 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The Eagle first flew in July 1972, and entered service in 1976.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
Since the 1970s, the Eagle has been exported to Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and other nations.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The F-15 was originally envisioned as a pure air superiority aircraft.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
Its design included a secondary ground-attack capability that was largely unused.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The design proved flexible enough that an all-weather strike derivative , the F-15E Strike Eagle , was later developed, and entered service in 1989.
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Q1331
When did F15s first fly
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The F-15 Eagle is expected to be in service with the U.S. Air Force past 2025.
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Q1333
what is a mimio board
Mimio
Mimio is a brand name of a line of technology products aimed at the education market.
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Q1333
what is a mimio board
Mimio
The primary products are focused around computer whiteboard interactive teaching devices.
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Q1333
what is a mimio board
Mimio
MimioCapture devices also allow users to capture all of the ink strokes that are written on the whiteboard.
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Q1333
what is a mimio board
Mimio
When used in conjunction with a video projector it turns the ordinary whiteboard surface into a fully interactive whiteboard .
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Q1333
what is a mimio board
Mimio
The product line was originally designed by Virtual Ink .
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Q1333
what is a mimio board
Mimio
On October 4, 2006 Newell Rubbermaid acquired the Mimio interactive whiteboard (iWB) product line.
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Q1334
what is a harlot in the bible
Rahab
Rahab of Jericho
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what is a harlot in the bible
Rahab
Rahab, (; ; ) was, according to the Book of Joshua , a woman who lived in Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites in capturing the city.
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Q1334
what is a harlot in the bible
Rahab
Nearly all English translations of Joshua describe her as a harlot or prostitute .
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Q1337
what are the goals of the organization of American states
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States ( Spanish : Organización de los Estados Americanos, Portuguese : Organização dos Estados Americanos, French : Organisation des États américains), or the OAS, is a regional international organization .
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what are the goals of the organization of American states
Organization of American States
The OAS was founded on 30 April 1948, and has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. , United States .
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Q1337
what are the goals of the organization of American states
Organization of American States
Its members are the 35 independent states of the Americas .
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what are the goals of the organization of American states
Organization of American States
Since 26 May 2005, the Secretary General of OAS has been José Miguel Insulza .
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus ( Italian : Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish : Cristóbal Colón; Portuguese : Cristóvão Colombo; before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa , in what is today northwestern Italy .
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents .
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola , initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World .
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia .
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago , at a locale he named San Salvador.
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where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles , as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire .
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where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas (having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries.
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
They had, therefore, an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western world.
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of the spreading of the Christian religion .
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios (Spanish for " Indians ").
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Q1339
where did columbus really land in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.
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Q1340
what is a brindle boxer
Boxer (dog)
Bred in Germany, the Boxer is a breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dogs .
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Q1340
what is a brindle boxer
Boxer (dog)
The coat is smooth and tight-fitting; colors are fawn or brindled , with or without white markings, which may cover the entire body.
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Q1340
what is a brindle boxer
Boxer (dog)
Boxers are brachycephalic (they have broad, short skulls), and have a square muzzle, mandibular prognathism (an underbite), very strong jaws , and a powerful bite ideal for hanging on to large prey.
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Q1340
what is a brindle boxer
Boxer (dog)
The Boxer was bred from the Old English Bulldog and the now extinct Bullenbeisser , and is part of the Molosser group.
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Q1340
what is a brindle boxer
Boxer (dog)
Boxers were first exhibited in a dog show for St. Bernards in Munich in 1895, the first Boxer club being founded the next year.
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Q1340
what is a brindle boxer
Boxer (dog)
Based on 2012 American Kennel Club statistics, Boxers held steady as the seventh most popular breed of dog in the United States for the third consecutive year.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives .
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what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
Serial ATA replaces the older AT Attachment standard (ATA; later referred to as Parallel ATA or PATA), offering several advantages over the older interface: reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40), native hot swapping , faster data transfer through higher signalling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing protocol.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
SATA host adapters and devices communicate via a high-speed serial cable over two pairs of conductors.
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what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
In contrast, parallel ATA (the redesignation for the legacy ATA specifications) used a 16-bit wide data bus with many additional support and control signals, all operating at much lower frequency.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
To ensure backward compatibility with legacy ATA software and applications, SATA uses the same basic ATA and ATAPI command-set as legacy ATA devices.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
SATA has replaced parallel ATA in consumer desktop and laptop computers , and has largely replaced PATA in new embedded applications.
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what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
SATA's market share in the desktop PC market was 99% in 2008.
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what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
PATA remains widely used in industrial and embedded applications that use CompactFlash storage, even though the new CFast standard is based on SATA.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
Serial ATA industry compatibility specifications originate from The Serial ATA International Organization (aka.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
SATA-IO, serialata.org).
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
The SATA-IO group collaboratively creates, reviews, ratifies, and publishes the interoperability specifications, the test cases, and plug-fests.
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Q1341
what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
As with many other industry compatibility standards, the SATA content ownership is transferred to other industry bodies: primarily the INCITS T13 subcommittee ATA, the INCITS T10 subcommittee ( SCSI ); a subgroup of T10 responsible for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
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what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
The complete specification from SATA-IO.
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what are SATA Power Connector
Serial ATA
The remainder of this article will try to use the terminology and specifications of SATA-IO.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The public was first introduced to the concepts that would lead to the Internet when a message was sent over the ARPANet from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ), after the second piece of network equipment was installed at Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ).
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
Packet switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I at NPL in the UK , CYCLADES , Merit Network , Tymnet , and Telenet , were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols .
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The ARPANET in particular led to the development of protocols for internetworking , in which multiple separate networks could be joined together into a network of networks.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, and consequently, the concept of a world-wide network of interconnected TCP/IP networks, called the Internet, was introduced.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation (NSF) developed the Computer Science Network (CSNET) and again in 1986 when NSFNET provided access to supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The Internet was commercialized in 1995 when NSFNET was decommissioned, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture and commerce, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail , instant messaging , Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) "phone calls", two-way interactive video calls , and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums , blogs , social networking , and online shopping sites.
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Q1342
who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The research and education community continues to develop and use advanced networks such as NSF's very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), Internet2 , and National LambdaRail .
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who invented the internet
History of the Internet
Increasing amounts of data are transmitted at higher and higher speeds over fiber optic networks operating at 1-Gbit/s, 10-Gbit/s, or more.
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who invented the internet
History of the Internet
The Internet's takeover over the global communication landscape was almost instant in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, already 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.
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