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The Altair 8800
Machine code (1's and 0's) used to communicate with the personal computer -
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple I Computer
This computer has a keyboard! -
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
An early packet switching network that allowed computers to connect with one another and with other computers. Originally funded by the United States Defense Department to be used in government. A commercial version would come out later, known as Telenet, which then blossomed into what we now know as the "Internet". -
Apple II
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple II. Featured color monitor, sound, and games, as well as a smooth, hard outer casing that protected the internal machine. -
The Domain Name System for naming websites
The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites. This is makes it easier to remember than the previous designation for websites, which were numbers such as 123.456.789.10. This also makes websites better understood/ more accessible to the public. -
IBM introduces its Personal Computer (PC)
The term "PC" came to mean more specifically a desktop microcomputer compatible with IBM's PC products. Only Apple (an IBM rival) did not create products "IBM compatible") -
CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.
A radical new way of linking and sharing information over the internet. Often the world wide web is used synonymous with the word "internet" but in reality, the WWW is accessed via the Internet. It stands as an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links. -
The Google Search Engine is Born
This search engine forever changes the way that the public interacts with the internet. Computers can now be used to access information digitally like never before. -
Facebook goes online and the era of social networking begins
Facebook was launched intially to help Harvard students connect with each other. It took the internet by storm and little by little, other college students gained access. After, it was opened up to the general public (above 13 years old) and has become to social networking mogul that it is today. -
Apple Iphone in Introduced to the public
The "computer in your pocket" allows for access to the internet, to music, a high definition camera, brand new technology for touch screen (no more keyboard!) and allows for the download of "apps" from the Apple Store. Completely changes the way the public thinks about the cell phone.
