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Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press -
First Computer Designed
Charles Baggage designs the first programmable mechanical computer. -
First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace is the first computer programmer. -
Keypunch Machine
Herman Hollerith invents the keypunch machine that helped launch information processing. -
Differential Analyzer
Vannevar Bush builds the first differential analyzer which is used to analyze differential equations. -
First Electronic Digital Computer
Alan Turning designs first electronic digital computer. -
Unimate
George Devol creates first digitally operated and programmed robot called Unimate to work on assembly lines. -
ARPANET
Larry Roberts and Thomas Merril connect a computer in Massachusetts to a computer In California using dial-up phone line to create the first computer network. -
Internet Protocol
Robert Kahn introduces The Internet Protocol to the public at the International Computer Communication Conference in 1972. -
First Email
Ray Tomlinson sends the first email message and decides to use "@" as the electronic locator symbol. -
Desk Sized Computers
IBM and Hewlett-Packard create the first desk sized programmable computers. -
Internet
Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalalm and Carl Sunshine first use the world "Internet". -
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Web Technology Available
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) makes web technology available to the world at not cost to any specific party. -
Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is passed to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid development of new telecommunications technologies -
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Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or DMCA) of 1998 introduced to American copyright law prohibitions against the circumvention of technological measures that control access to or use of copyrighted works. -
Tor
The US Navel Academy releases Tor in 2005 to provide a way for users to be anonymous online. -
Bitcon
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, introduced in 2009, that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network and is untraceable.