The document outlines key events in the history of the internet from 1836 to 1990, including the invention of the telegraph, telephone, development of early computers at MIT in the 1930s, launch of Sputnik inspiring research into packet networks, birth of the internet in 1969, development of name servers in 1983, and growth of the internet globally using TCP/IP in 1989 when ARPANET was shut down.

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2. 1836 :Cooke and Wheatstone patent the Telegraph.Revolutionized human telecommunications.

3. 1876 :Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone.

4. 1932-1938 :VannevarBush was vice-president and dean of engineering at MIT.

5. 1957:USSR launches Sputnik

6. 1969 :Birth of Internet

7. 1983 :Name server developed.

8. 1989:Large growth in Internet

9. 1989 :TCP/IP goes global

10. 1990 :ARPANET formally shuts down