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Found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack
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The first computer game was invented by Stever Russell in 1962, the game was called spaceward. Source
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The computer mouse was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart with the help of Bill English. Source
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The Osborne 1 was the first laptop and it weighed 23.6 pounds. It had no battery. Source
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The first emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie
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The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com (in 2009, the domain was sold to XF.com). Source
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The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They incorporated their company on September 4, 1998 in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage Source
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Wikipedia was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The concept was that no central organization should control editing. Source
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Founded by Mark Zuckerberg (19-year-old) and began an instant hit and now is one of the biggest websites in the world. Source
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YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Karim came up with the idea of YouTbube when he hardly found videos of ocean tsunami which happened in India in 2004 and Janet Jackson's and Justin Timberlake's performance. Source
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Twitter started by a podcasting company named Odeo. They wanted to create SMS that would allow a user to communicate with a small group of people. Twitter was first called "status" until the group looked in the dictionary for names and then found Twitter. Source
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Instagram is the #1 photo social platform. Founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and was later bought by Facebook in April 2012 Source
