Internet

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1969

• U.S. Department of Defense implements ARPANET (advanced research projects agency network) to demonstrate how communications between computers could promote cooperative research among scientists.

1983

• U.S. National Science Foundation incorporates ARPANET into its new INTERNET (interactive network).

1991

• The CORE project, to create a prototype of an electronic library of ACS journals, is established cooperatively by ACS, CAS, Bellcore, OCLC, and Cornell University.

1992

• First sites appear on the World Wide Web.

1995

• CAS begins Internet coverage of chemical science resources that are only available in electronic form.

1996

• ACS creates ChemCenter, a web service to access a wide variety of chemical information. Includes full text of 26 ACS journals.

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