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Spacewar
In 1961 development of Spacewar on a PDP-1 at MIT for the Science Open House. -
First Mouse
The first piece of hardware that we’d probably identify as the ancestor of the modern mouse was developed in 1963 by Douglas Engelbart. It used two wheels mounted orthogonally to provide movement data in two axes, and just like a modern mouse, you held it in your hand -
Birth of internet
ARPANET commissioned by DoD for research into networking.
Why is this relevant?
First node at UCLA (Los Angeles) closely followed by nodes at Stanford Research Institute, UCSB (Santa Barbara) and U of Utah (4 Nodes). -
The first portable computer
created by bill moggridge The MCM/70 was one of the first microcomputers released. It was also the first portable computer on the market. -
Floppy Disk
Yoshiro Nakamatsu made the floppy disk. Floppy disk were used as a form of data storage and as an external usb drive -
Usenet came into being
Two Duke University grad students in North Carolina, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, thought of hooking computers together to exchange information with the UNIX community. Steve Bellovin, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, put together the first version of the news software using shell scripts and installed it on the first two sites: "unc" and "duke." -
Microsoft enters
12.8 Million Hosts, 0.5 Million WWW Sites.
Internet phones catch the attention of US telecommunication companies who ask the US Congress to ban the technology (which has been around for years) -
Google.com registered as a domain
Google's First Homepage -
Facebook Founded
Zuckerburg founded in Harvard -
Introduction of iPhone to Employees
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc. introduces the iPhone to Apple employees at a State of the Company conference
