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Apple I Computer
Apple I Computer
Steve Wazniak had been designing his own personal computer for years. He has an intelligent but relatively poor man. He was encouraged by other computers entering the market so he began putting more effort on his master piece. While working at HP, Steve wazniak proposes to HP to create a personal computer but he is rejected. In March 1776 Steve wozniak finally finishes the Apple 1 computer with the help of Steve Jobs. They began -
Government and Universities have access to email and internet.
E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson off BBN in 1972 for ARPANET which was the name for the Internet in those days. In 1980 the Department of Defense began using email and by 1981 BITNET connected IBM mainframes around the educational community to provide mail service. After e-mail became easier for non-technical people to learn how to use it became more standardized. Not just libraries and technical departments were beginning to use e-mail but students began to use it in order to communicate. -
IBM Introduces the PC.
PC
About a dozen people made up the first development team, recalls Dave Bradley, who wrote the interface code for the new product. For a month, they met every morning to hash out what it was this machine had to do and then in the afternoons worked on the morning's decisions. They started to build a prototype to take — by the end of the year — to a then little-known company called Microsoft. The team beat that deadlin -
World Wide Web became viable for the general public
[World Wide Web](J:\History of the world wide web.htm)
It was Tim Berners Lee who brought this all together and created the World Wide Web. The first trials of the World Wide Web were at the CERN laboratories (one of Europe's largest research laboratories) in Switzerland in December 1990. By 1991 browser and web server software was available, and by 1992 a few preliminary sites existed in places like University of Illinois, where Mark Andreesen became involved. By the end of 1992, th -
Creators of Google
Creators of Google
The search engine Google, was created by two Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They began working together on a paged called BackRub but it took too much bandwidth so it was taken down. In September 15, 1997 google.com is officially registered as a domain name. The name was closely connected with the mathematical word “googol”, which is a term for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zero’s. It ref -
Yahoo! Directory goes online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Directory The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering. When Yahoo! changed to crawler-based listings for its main results in October 2002, -
Youtube
Youtube
Youtube.com was founded by three former Paypal employees in 2005. With the domain name active they created a video-sharing website where users could upload, share, and view videos. The original headquarters of YouTube was above a pizzeria and a Japanese restaurant in western California. During 2006 the growth of YouTube exceeded expectations. More than 65,000 new videos were uploadd every 24 hours. Today -
First Tweet Sent
First Tweet
On March 21, 2006, Jack sent the first message on Twitter. He wrote, "just setting up my twttr". Twitter began as an idea that Jack Dorsey had originally imagined as an SMS-based communications platform. He wanted groups of friends to keep updated on what they were doing based on their status updates. At first, its name had started out as "Status", but they wanted a name that fit with what it was based on. Going through t -
Amazon releases Kindle
First Kindle
The Kindle is a thin electronic reader that took three years to develop. It connects wirelessly to the Internet and allows people to download books, or subscribe to magazines and blogs from Amazon. The Kindle was a device sought to deliver the best reading experience out there. Advantages such as carrying many books in one device rather than having many books at once, and being able to purchase -
Instagram Begins
Instagram
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kriegor. Instagram is an app that was built in eight weeks but was changed and worked on over the course of a year. It all started when Kevin started programming simple ideas he had. He spread one of his ideas, “Burbn”, at a party in which some people decided they would help him make it a reality. After Mike Kriegor joined Systrom they decided Burbn was too cluttered. That was when they decided
