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Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone
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Invented by Guglielmo Marconi
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Invented by Philo Famsworth
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Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of universal formal language
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Alan Turing develops this concept
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is developed to standardise data exchange among computers.
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Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out at the end)
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Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"
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Invented by Ray Tomlinson
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Liquid Crystal Display was invented by James Fergason
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The mini computer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers
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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks
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The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 (first portable computer)
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Founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
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Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line
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IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is introduced
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Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, net, org and int.
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet
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The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991
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YAHOO is created in April, 1994.
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Java is introduced
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Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
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EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
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Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
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PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin
