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The 1st Personal Computer: the Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes, deemed the "Father of the Typewriter", of Milwaukee with the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule invented their first typewriter. -
Birth of the CPU
The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and it is considered the first digital computer because it was fully functional. -
Apple 1
In 1976, Steven Wozniak and Steve Jobs designed what is now known as the Apple I. Jobs convinced Wozniak that he needed to try to sell the machine, and on April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was created. -
Windows 1?
Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system. -
.COM
Thirty years ago, the .com (the suffix stands for "commercial") Internet domain was born. Top-level domains like .com to organize the addresses. There's .gov for government, .edu for education, .mil for the military and .org for organizations. -
WELCOME TO THE World Wide Web
The World Wide Web became available to the public after it was created by Tim Berners-Lee for the purpose of having a way for physicists to share information around the world without all using the same types of hardware and software. -
Google
Google, the leading search engine worldwide, was founded in 1998 by Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergei Brin. This transformed how the internet was perceived and used by the masses. -
Are you LinkedIn?
LinkedIn, an online social network for business professionals, was founded by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly, and Jean-Luc Vaillant. -
The First Macbook
The story of the MacBook begins when Steve Jobs unveiled the world’s first Intel-based Apple laptop (on Jan. 10) and dubbed it the “MacBook Pro.” -
Birth of the iPad
Steve Jobs and Apple gave birth to the first generation iPad and tablet computers. -
The Future: Google Glass?
Google Announces “Project Glass” which displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format -
eBay changes e-commerce
eBay, the multi-billion dollar online auction company that changed e-commerce, all started in the summer of 1995 by software programmer Pierre Omidyar. -
