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1971-1973 Large Universites and Government were the first to Access Email Via Internet
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Time frame only large universities and the Government have access to email on the Internet. (ARPNET)
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World Wide Web becomes viable for the general public.
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Yahoo! Directory goes online
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering. Yahoo! changed its search results in October 2002, and was still being updated in August 2010. http://gawker.com/5106940/an-instant-history-of-yahoo http://books.google.com/books?id=MwkrRDmvYOYC&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false -
Google
Google was created by Larry Page and Sergery Brin. September 15, 1997 they registered their domain, google.com. On September 4, 1998, they formally incorporated their company, Google. https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm -
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First Tweet Sent
It was written by co-founder Jack Dorsey, and stated: "just setting up my twttr" https://twitter.com/jack/status/20 http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-21/twitter-birthday/53684356/1 http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/tech/social-media/twitter-first-tweet/ -
Amazon released first Kindle
It was released for $399.00, and sold out in five and a half hours. The kindle remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008.
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Instagram began
*There wasn't a set date for when it began, just the month and year. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. March 5, 2010 Instagram received $500k in seed funding. In April 2012, Instagram was acquired by facebook. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/11/business/la-fi-instagram-systrom-20120411 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2128518/Instagram-The-nerds-billion-551-days-camera-app.html
