Beijing (CNN) -- "Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner of the world," read the header of the first email sent from China back in 1987. Two Chinese scientists sent it to their German counterparts through an "email node," a rudimentary system used to send emails at that time. Their hyperbole aside, they probably didn't realize that the rare connection could foretell a digital revolution. That came on April 20, 1994, when geeks at the Institute of High Energy Physics at China's Academy of Sciences built the first cable connection to the World Wide Web via facilities based at Stanford University's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
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April 20, 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the Chinese Internet
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A thriving IT industry with distinct Chinese characteristics continues to boom
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