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The Creation of the first Programmable Computer
The first programmable computer was created by Konrad Zuse. It was called the Z1, and it was considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer (the first most functional modern computer). -
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The Invention of ENIAC
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was built by John Mauchly. It was an all-electronic calculating machine. It was the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speeds without being slowed by any mechanical parts. -
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The First Instance of AI
AI (artificial intelligence) was first created by Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert A. Simon. The development of AI came from the creation of the "Logic Theorist." The term AI was first coined by John McCarthy. He first wrote a checkers-playing program in 1952 and then created a version that learned to play in 1955. -
The First Email Sent
The first email ever sent was by a man named Ray Thomlinson. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, he sent the email from one computer to another right beside it, traveling through ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network - the preliminary Internet). -
Creation of Microsoft
Microsoft was a company that makes computer software founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1979, it grew into a major multinational technology corporation and in 1986, Microsoft went public. In the following year, Bill Gates became the world's youngest billionaire. -
Creation of Apple
The first Apple product of the Apple Computer was created by Steve Jobs and Stever Wozniak in Cupertino, California. The two wanted the view of computers to be changed; they wanted to make computers small enough for people to have in their homes or offices. They then instilled a new corporate philosophy of recognizable products and simple design, starting with the original iMac in 1998. The company is valued at $148 billion in 2018. -
The First Instance of Emoticons
Emoticons enable the expression of human emotion via texts. Dr Scott Fahlman was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, invented the smiley face emoticon :-) -
The First Instance of our Internet
ARPANET had taken up TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) and from there, researchers began to assemble the "networks of networks" that became the modern Internet. The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 and is the most recognizable form of our current online world. It was created for the purpose of having a defense network that could function during the time of potential, nuclear war. -
Creation of the Deep Web
The deep web was created by the US government. American military researches created this technology where intelligence operatives could exchange information completely anonymously. They called it "Tor," which stands for "The Onion Router." -
Creation of Amazon
Today, Amazon is one of the largest and first companies to sell goods over the Internet. It was created by Jeff Bezos, and now generates over $61 billion in Revenue. It started off inside of a garage, then as an online bookstore in Seattle. -
Invention of Google
Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergery Brin and created in order to organize information on the internet and help users find the information they were looking for. It's name came from the name "googol" - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. -
Creation of Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sagnger registered the licence for Nupedia to GDFL. They then Launched Wikipedia using "wiki" technology which was first made by Ward Cunningham in 1995. Today, Wikipedia is not looked upon as a credible source of information for schools, but with close to six million articles in the English Wikipedia, it's used as a site to look for anything from a-z. Anyone can write an article on the site, but not all of them stay up (especially the case for misinformation). -
Creation of Facebook
Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg. It originally was made as a game called "Facesmash" that allowed users to rate classmates' appearances. Today, more than one billion people use the social media site to share posts, videos and pictures across the globe. -
Creation of YouTube
YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim who all worked for Paypal. It soon became America's leading video sharing website. -
Invention of Bitcoin
Invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is a type of digital currency (crypto-currency) that is vauled at $4466.81 Canadian Dollar for a single Bitcoin. It can be sent from user-to-user on the bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.
