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1986

INTERNET EVENTS

• National Science Foundation (NSF) created its own network called NSFNET.

• NSFNET used TCP/IP and ran faster than ARPANET by running more phone lines between big cities. This formed a strong Internet backbone.

• There are now about 6000 hosts/nodes at the end of 1986.

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CURRENT EVENTS

• On January 28th, the Challenger explodes.

• Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR, April.

• Fox Network starts in America.

• Vice President George Bush's broccoli incident, tons is delivered to the White House.

• Return of Haley's Comet.

• Hands Across America, May 25, 1986.

• Statue of Liberty celebrates the 100th Anniversary and gets a face lift in the process.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver.

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