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colleges and universites had acess to email
[(link)](1. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091598.htm)On a cold war kind of day, in swinging 1969, work began on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet. Designed as a computer version of the nuclear bomb shelter, ARPAnet protected the flow of information between military installations by creating a network of geographically separated computers that could exchange information via a newly developed protocol (rule for how computers interact) called NCP (Network Control P -
steve wazniak invented the apple computer
(link)They built their first machines in Jobs' family garage in 1976. With Wozniak’s computing and software genius combined with Jobs' marketing prowess, success came relatively quickly. They sold their first fifty machines to a dealer called the Byte Shop in Mountain View, Calif. Dubbed "Apple Is," the computers sold for $666 each. They were the first single-board computers with onboard Read Only Memory, or ROM. They also had a video interface. -
IBM introduced the pc
[(link)](4. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_press.html)"This is the computer for just about everyone who has ever wanted a personal system at the office, on the university campus or at home," said C. B. Rogers, Jr., IBM vice president and group executive, General Business Group. "We believe its performance, reliability and ease of use make it the most advanced, affordable personal computer in the marketplace." -
World WIde Web became viable
[(link)](1. http://www.daaq.net/old/misc/index.php?page=net+explosion&parent=net+history)Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Center for High Energy Physics in Geneva) began development of a document browser and editor called ViolaWWW that made use of hypertext and could connect documents on different networks over the Internet through the use of hyperlinks. With it he developed a language to go with it called HTML, derived from the language he and many of his colleagues used at work to write and share documents online.
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yahoo! directory went online
(link)The Yahoo Directory was started in 1994 under the name "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but in 1996 became Yahoo. At the time Yahoo was primarily a directory with search functionality and (interestingly) neither SEO nor Internet Marketing were even categories at the time. -
creators, and went online . Founders of google Sergey Brin and Larry Page
[(link)](7. https://www.google.com/about/company/history/)On September 4, Google files for incorporation in California. Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim's check. Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park, Calif. Larry and Sergey hire their first employee. Craig Silverstein is a fellow CS grad student at Stanford who works at Google for 10+ years before joining education startup Khan Academy. "PC Magazine" reports that Google "has an -
youtube founded.The founders of youtube Jawed Karim • Steve Chen • Chad Hurley
(link)Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. -
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first kindle
[(link2)](8. http://gizmodo.com/5844662/the-history-of-amazons-kindle-so-far//all)[(link1)](http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-corporateTimeline)When the original Kindle launched in 2007, it was immensely popular, selling out within hours and remaining out of stock for months, but it also wasn't the eReader juggernaut that the Kindle is today. It had a 6-inch screen and 250MB of memory, which was expandable by SD card, and originally went for $400. -
intsagram
first instagram photo\ They launched it in October 2010 with $7 million from a venture capital firm, Benchmark Capital. Instagram is hardly revolutionary in photography terms — it offers a nuts-and-bolts version of the sort of photo-enhancing programmers already available on the internet, allowing you to choose a filter to change the look of a shot into, say, a retro-style Polaroid or a sepia-tinte
