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E-mail was created
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing E-mail in 1972. Ray worked as an ARPANET contractor when he came up with the idea. The symbol "@" was used to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer. -
Pong was created
Pong is one of the earliest arcade games. It is a 2D tennis sport game created by Allan Alcorn and Nolan Bushnell -
Cell Phones Created
Created by John F. Mitchell and Dr. Martin Cooper, The phone originally weighed 2.2 pounds. They sold for sold for $3,995 and was nicknamed "The Brick" -
Microsoft Created
The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company is now considered one of the most valuable companies in the world -
Apple is created
Steve Jobs created Apple on April 1st, 1976. Apple is now the world's third-largest mobile phone maker and has an estimated value of about $414 Billion. Besides computers and phones Apple has also made the iPod, the iPad, and the Apple TV -
Wifi Invented
Vic Hayes has been called the "father of Wi-Fi" , due to his involvement in negotiating initial standards within the corporation. Now with WiFi the average person could do their work on the go -
Google is founded
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University. The goal of Google was too "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". It is now one of the most known companies in the world -
Facebook is created
Mark Zuckerberg changed the social media game when he came up with the idea facebook. Now 1,110,000,000 billion people have a facebook and the company has a net worth of about 13.3 billion dollars. Due to facebook Mark Zuckerberg has become the youngest billionaire ever. -
Youtube is invented
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The creation of this website has lead to videos having billions of views -
iPhone is created
Production of the iPhone began in 2004 but wasn't ready for stores until 2007. Being a smart phone it can put all of these other technological invention/creations at the palm of your hand
