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Steve Wozniak invented the Apple 1 computer.
sources picture: www.vintagecomputing.com
date: http://oldcomputers.net/applei.html
info: http://oldcomputers.net/applei.html Steve "Woz" Wozniak was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard, and loved computers. He was relatively poor, but always wanted his own computer to play around with. Being rather intelligent, he had been designing his own computer for years, but never actually got around to making one. -
IBM introduced the PC.
source
picture: www.vintagecomputing.com
date: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html
info: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html first as do-it-yourself kits and then as off-the-shelf products. They offered a few applications but none that justified widespread use. -
The government and large universities had access to internet and email it was called ARPNET.
This proceeded to happen until the 1990's sources
picture: www.pcgames.de
date: http://www.nethistory.info/History of the Internet/email.html
info:http://inventors.about.com grandfather to the Internet. Designed as a computer version of the nuclear bomb shelter, ARPAnet protected the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of geographically separated computers that could exchange information via a newly developed protocol -
"www" became viable for general public.
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date: http://www.chacha.com/question/when-did-the-world-wide-web-become-viable-for-the-general-public
info:http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, about 20 years after the first connection was established over what is today known as the Internet. -
Yahoo! directory goes live.
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date: http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/yahoo_directory.php
info:http://www.websearchworkshop.co.uk/yahoo_directory.php The Yahoo! directory was set up in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo in an attempt to categorise all the new web sites that were beginning to appear on the new World Wide Web. The name of the directory initially came from a dictionary search using the letters of Jerry Yang's name and, once found, the 'joke' acronym was created: -
Two people created google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) and it went live.
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picture: www.tuaw.com
date & info: https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. -
Youtube was founded.
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picture: www.youtube.com
date & info: http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/YouTube.htm According to their fact sheet, YouTube was founded in February 2005, as a destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through the Web. Users can upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and YouTube enables video embedding that allows YouTube videos to be placed on non-YouTube pages. -
The first tweet was sent.
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picture: www.redesyseguridad.es
date: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/twitter-first-tweet-fifth-anniversary_n_838280.html
info:http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-21/twitter-birthday/53684356/1 it took Twitter three years, two months and one day to reach the first billion tweets, and it took about 18 months for the first 500,000 users to sign up. -
Amazon released the first Kindle.
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picture: www.amazon.com
date & info: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/k/kindle/index.html Many customers are unhappy with Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet computer; company is reportedly working on improved version of device, which will probably be released in spring 2012; primary goal in the meantime is to make the Fire ubiquitous. -
Instagram begins.
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picture: www.instagram.com
date & info: http://behindthehustle.com/2013/01/start-up-story-kevin-systrom-of-instagram-2/ Kevin Systrom, the 27 year old Founder/CEO of photo APP company Instagram had a pretty good day Did Facebook agree to buy his company for $1 billion? YES. Did he own 40% of the company and therefore make an insane $400 million off the purchase? YES YES and YES!
