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The U.S. Air Force created the first Wide area network in the late 1950s.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958.
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Paul Baran is responsible for the packet-switching concept in 1960.
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Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne founded apple
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The modem was invented by Dale Heatherington and Dennis Hayes in 1977.
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Don Estridge launched the first personal computer
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Scott Fahlman used the first emoticon on September 19, 1982.
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The first virus was a boot sector virus dubbed.
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The first worm was created in 1988 and it was called Morris worm or Internet worm.
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Tim Berners-Lee introduced the first world wide web in 1989
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet in 1990.
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The michelangelo virus was discovered March 6, 1992.
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Marc Andreessen created the mosaic web browser in 1993.
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Jerry Yang and David Filo founded yahoo in 1994
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Thomas Reardon launched the internet explorer in 1994,
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Amazon was founded by Jeffrey Preston Bezos in 1994.
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Ebay was founded by Pierre Morad Omidyar in 1995.
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Instant messenger was launched in May of 1997.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin created google on September 4, 1998.
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Steve Jobs launched the safari browser on January 7, 2003.
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Steve Jobs launched itunes on April 28, 2003.
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Mark Zuckerberg launched facebook on February 4, 2004.
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YouTube was launched by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim on February of 2005.
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Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board bought skype in 2009.
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Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra launched pinterest on January 2010.
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Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched instagram.