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Birth of the internet
Historians have managed to agree that the Internet was born in 1969, when in the middle of the Cold War the US Department of Defense decided to create a communications system capable of withstanding a nuclear attack.
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ARPANET is born
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. -
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The big web portals
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Tim Berners-Lee begins developing the HTML language
The origin of HTML dates back to 1980, when physicist Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) proposed a new "hypertext" system for sharing documents. Hypertext systems had been developed years before. -
The first virus
Rich Skrenta, a 15-year-old high school student, programs the so-called Elk Cloner for the Apple, the first virus in history.
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Beginning of the World Wide Web
Physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web as a useful tool for scientists in 1989.
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MP3 becomes a standard
In 1994, mp3 files began appearing on the Internet and their popularity began to rise when Winamp, another media player, was released in 1997. Later that year, mp3.com was offering thousands of free mp3s by independent artists, spreading popularity as people were downloading the songs. -
The first webcam
The first webcam ever was actually invented by lazy students at Cambridge University who didn’t want to waste a trip to the nearby coffee pot if it was going to be empty when they got there.
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The first browser
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Microsoft launches Internet Explorer
After being launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became one of the most popular tools for accessing the Internet. There were 11 versions between 1995 and 2013. -
Google Creation
Google Inc. was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine.
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First ever Apple IPod launches
The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about 81⁄2 months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released. -
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The social web
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Foundation of Facebook and Gmail
On that April 1, 2004, many took the announcement of the launch of Gmail and Facebook.
It was because of their clean and clear interface, their search engine, their unique organization of messages in conversations and for that 1 GB mailbox that crushed all their competitors in capacity.
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Youtube goes line
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is the second most visited website, with more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day.
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iPhone is launched
The history of the iPhone development by Apple Inc. spans from the early 2000s to about 2010. The first iPhone was released in 2007. By the end of 2009, iPhone models had been released in all major markets.
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Google introduces a real-time search
Google announced the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results. -
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Online platforms
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The Apple Watch goes on sale
Pre-orders for the Apple Watch began on April 10, 2015, with the official release on April 24.
Currently, Walmart has one of the best cheap Apple Watch deals around. The retailer has the Apple Watch 3 on sale for $169, which is $30 off and the best cheap Apple Watch deal we've seen all year.