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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage invented the concept of the Difference Engine, which was one of the first successful automatic calculators. Read more about him here. -
ENIAC
The ENIAC, the "first all-electronic general purpose computer" was completed and announced. It was supposed to be used in World War II, but was completed after the war had finished. Read more about it here. -
ARPANET
On this date, the first ever ever computer to computer link was established on ARPANET (which was more or less the precursor to the Internet). You can read more about ARPANET here. -
First Ever Email
The first ever email was sent by Ray Tomilson. He didn't invent the term "email", however. To learn more, click the link and watch the video. -
Microsoft
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on this date. Microsoft has been responsible for the creation of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Visit Microsoft's official homepage here. -
Apple
Apple was founded on this date by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Today Apple is responsible for many different computer products, such as Macs. You can visit Apple's official site here. -
Spam
The first spam message was sent, which was an advertisement for a presentation by Digital Equipment Corporation. The spam was sent by Gary Thuerk, one of their marketers. -
Usenet
Usenet is one of the oldest Internet based discussion systems, similar to systems used nowadays such as Reddit. Feel free to read more about it here, and how it can still be used today. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. It was the most common means of accessing data online. It used websites and hyperlinks. -
Archie
Archie is considered to be the first internet search engine. This search engine was made by a man named Alan Emtage. You can read an interview of him here. -
First Webcam
The world's first webcam was created to monitor a pot of coffee. The geniuses that created such a marvelous piece of technology for such a genius purpose were several people at Cambridge University. You can learn more by clicking on this link. -
First Web Page
The first web page went live on this day. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project.
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Mosaic
Mosaic was the first widely downloaded Internet browser. While not the first ever internet browser, it was considered to be the first one that made the Internet easily accessible to people that didn't really know how to use the Internet. Learn more about Mosaic here. -
Creation of Google
Google, now one of the biggest and most well known search engines, was created as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google eventually went live in 1998. Have fun looking stuff up on Google here. -
Morris Worm
The Morris Worm was one of the first computer worms distributed via the internet. The worm caused functions to slow to an absolute crawl. Here's a short twitter post about the event. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia AKA the online encyclopedia was launched this day. It was originally launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but it was relaunched as its own independent website a few days later. Feel free to visit their website here. -
Skype
Skype was launched on this date. Skype was the first voice-over-IP service. You can visit their website here. -
Facebook
Facebook was publicly launched by Mark Zuckerberg under the original name "TheFacebook." It was originally located at thefacebook.com. You can visit Facebook here. -
First Youtube Video
The first ever Youtube video was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim. Watch it here. -
Twitter
Twitter was founded on this date. It's one of the most popular, well-known, and widely used social networking services on the Internet, even to this day. You can visit the website here. -
iPhone
The original iPhone was debuted on this date by Steve Jobs. You can watch Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone here. -
Discord
Discord, one of the most widely used messaging applications specializing in bringing together and creating several different communities, was released.
