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As legend has it Wazniak developed the computer in his garage, but in reality he developed the device in his bedroom that would change the world forever.
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The United States celebrates 200th birthday of independence from British Rule
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Severe Summer Heat Wave in Southern US Causes 1,117 deaths in 20 States
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Researchers find the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic
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The secret name for the project was "Project Chess", and the code name for the computer was "Acorn". The development team consisted of 12 people who worked consistantly around the clock to develop the porduct and develope marketing strategies to make this thing a success.
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prior to this time the internet was used as a system for the military and other government installations to exchange information, statistics and material with one another between agencies.
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Fires in the hills of Oakland, California burns thousands of homes and kills 25
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Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center
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in 1992 Paul Linder and Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota release Gopher, a tool that allows researchers to retrieve data from myriad locations. the next year Mosaic, a web browser, was developed by University of Illinois by Marc Andreeson, the first pubilc domain.
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Tonya Harding wins the national Figure Skating championship title but is stripped of her title following an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan
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Yahoo was created by two electrical engineering majors from Stanford University named Jerry Yang and David Filo. Jerry renamed their guid to the web Yahoo.
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Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. starting the Lewinsky scandal and investigations
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-Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford in 1995 and start colllaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub runs on Stanford servers for more than a year which eventually took up too much bandwidth. This is where Google.com came in to play.
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Invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. They sold their idea to Google for 1.65 billion dollars
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The Kindle re-shaped how people read books. By 2010, Amazon announced that in the United States, their e-book sales had surpassed sales of paperback books fo the first time.
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It is specifically designed to build on the benefits of taday's seatch engines but begins to move beyond the experience with a new approach to user experience
