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the U.S. Air Force
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by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Invented by Dennis C. Hayes
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Paul Baran
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What was the first emoticon ever used? Although it has been claimed that the first emoticon appeared in 1979, the first substantiated use of an emoticon came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982.
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In January of 1986, the first virus written for Windows based PCs was born. Known simply as “Brain,” it was written by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were only 17 and 24 years old at the time.
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IBM's own Personal Computer (IBM 5150) was introduced in August 1981, only a year after corporate executives gave the go-ahead to Bill Lowe, the lab director in the company's Boca Raton, Fla., facilities.
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The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, was one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention.
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Where the Web was born. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
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Michelangelo is known as a "boot sector infector." It's not carried by programs but is spread by floppy disks. It attaches itself to the area of the disk that is read when the computer is "booted," or started. You can catch the virus if you boot or turn on the computer while an infected floppy is in the A drive
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Yahoo the email was created. -
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Founded by Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim
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Instagram and Pintrest were made in the 2010s
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Microsoft bought Skype
