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History of Internet and Computers
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First computer game
Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. -
Floppy disc
'the floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by alan shugart in 1967. -
First mouse
The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, it was patented on November 17, 1970. -
Email @
The Inventor of Email is V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai - The Facts. In 1978, a 14-year-old named V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai developed a computer program, which replicated the features of the interoffice, inter-organizational paper mail system. -
First Hard drive
1980: IBM introduces the first gigabyte hard drive. It is the size of a refrigerator, weighs about 550 pounds, and costs $40,000. 1980: Seagate releases the first 5.25-inch hard disk. -
First Laptop
The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 23.6 pounds (10.7 kg). It had no battery, a 5 in (13 cm) CRT screen, and dual 5.25 in (13.3 cm) single-density floppy drives. In the same year the first laptop-sized portable computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced. -
The Commadore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, C-64, C=64, [n 1] or occasionally CBM 64 or VIC-64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International. -
Founding of GOOGLE
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998 -
founding of Facebook
Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg -
First Iphone
iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. They run Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007;