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HP Releases the HP2115A the first business computer
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The Apollo guidance system is unveiled as Apollo 7 orbits the earth
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AT&T Bell laboratories develops the UNIX operating system
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the first email was sent via the military network ARPANET, its contents were, "QWERTYUIOP"
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one of the first widely available videogames PONG is released nationally, proving to be extremely popular and launching video games into the mainstream
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Queen Elizabeth II sends her first Email
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Steve Wozniak develops the Apple-I computer and joins with his best friend Steve Jobs to found Apple Computer, INC
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Atari releases the Atari VCS (shortly after renamed the Atari 2600) which sells over 20 million units throughout the 80's
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IBM introduces its first personal computer
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MS-DOS, the first Microsoft operating system, is released to go with the IBM PC
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TIME magazine writes "Several human candidates might have represented 1982, but none symbolized the past year more richly, or will be viewed by history as more significant, than a machine: the computer."
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Apple releases the macintosh, the first affordable PC to use a GUI (graphical user interface)
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The World Wide Web was born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML
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Yahoo started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed. Yahoo would quickly expand to become one of the Internet’s most popular search engines.
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An international treaty governing the trade of information technology goes into effect
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Google founded, rapidly becomes the most popular search engine on the webternet
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Wireless internet developed
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the 9/11 terrorist attacks usher in a new era of information collection with the department of homeland security monitoring most forms of communication, including the internet.
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Digital satellite radio developed
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processors with multiple cores allow smaller computers to be faster than ever
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The FCC repeals net neutrality, allowing companies to slow down sites unless they pay hefty fees for "fastlane" access
