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Steve Wozniak invents the Apple I computer.
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. -
united states
The United States celebrates 200th birthday of independence from British Rule -
Only large universities and the Government have access to email on the Internet.
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summer heat wave
Severe Summer Heat Wave in Southern US Causes 1,117 deaths in 20 States -
1981
Researchers find the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic -
IBM introduces the PC.
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. -
Internet Becomes Viable to public
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. -
Fire
Fires in the hills of Oakland, California burns thousands of homes and kills 25 -
Bomb
Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center -
The World Wide Web became available to the general public.
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. -
skating scandal
Tonya Harding wins the national Figure Skating championship title but is stripped of her title following an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan -
Yahoo! Directory goes online.
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. -
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. starting the Lewinsky scandal and investigations -
Google goes online. Who are the two creators of Google? -Larry Page and Sergey Brin
-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. -
White Sox win world series Vs. Astros
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Youtube is founded.
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 -
Red Sox win world series
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Amazon releases the first Kindle
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. -
Yankees win world series
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Bing is introduced by Microsoft.
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
