How did the Louisiana Purchase change the size of the US?
In 1803 the US bought the Louisiana Territory from France for about $15 million. The deal roughly doubled the size of the country.
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- When did the internet switch to TCP/IP?
“On January 1, 1983, ARPANET officially switched to the TCP/IP protocol, which many consider the true birth of the modern internet.”
Reference: Internet Society
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Who invented the World Wide Web?
British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland.
What was the first message sent over the internet?
The first message sent over ARPANET, the internet's ancestor, went from UCLA to Stanford Research Institute on October 29, 1969. It was supposed to be "LOGIN," but the system crashed after "LO."