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Thomas Edison
In 1868, Thomas Edison came up with his first patented invention--An electrical voice recorder -
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Douglas Engelbart
He created the computer mouse, and developed the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware. -
Ken Thompson
In 1969, Thompson and colleague Dennis Ritchie created the UNIX operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. UNIX was a scaled-down version of the MIT MULTICS operating system, one meant to run on the new smaller minicomputers becoming available at the end of the 1960s. -
Norman Abramson
The resulting radio network technology his team developed was deployed as ALOHAnet in 1971, based on the dual meaning of the Hawaiian word "aloha". -
Jack Nilles
Jack is called the "father of telecommuting" -
Robert Metcalfe
In 1973, Robert invented Ethernet. -
Marty Cooper
In 1973, Marty Cooper created the first handheld cellular phone. -
Geral A. Lawson
In 1976, Gerald Lawson created the first cartridge-based video game system, the Fairchild Channel F. -
Nathaniel Borenstein
In1980, Nathaniel created the MIME protocol -
Dr.Fujio Masuoka
In 1984, Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory -
Tim Berners-Lee
In 1989, Tim invented the World Wide Web, he also created the HTML system -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the world's first web client (a browser/editor), created the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) -
Tim Berners-Lee
In March 1991, Tim release the first web browser