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Developement of electrionic computers
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History
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The Soviets launched Sputnik, first earth satellite, into space which would lead to advances in computer technology.
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NASA was formed which focused mainly on computer science
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ARPANET was formed which was world's first multi-site computer network.
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Telnet was created for logging in over a network
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The Unix was cretaed which was an operating system whose design influenced other operating systems later on .
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Email was first developed by Ray Tomilson, who also created the @ sign
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Arpanet made its first trans -atlantic connection with the Univeristy of London
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SPAM or the first commercial email messages were sent out to 600 users
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The first emoticon was created :-) by Scott Fahlman as a joke
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The Domain name system was created to make internet more human friendly.
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The internet expanded from 1,000 hosts to eventually 30,000
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The first web page was created, which explained what the world wide web was.
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Also the First web cam was created and used in Cambridge University
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Google began for the first time
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Wikipedia launched which paved the way for social media
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MySpace became the most popular social networking site
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Facebook is finally launched and was only avaliable to college students
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YouTube is launched for the first time
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Twitter is finally launched which was inspired by flickr
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The first Iphones come out which renewed intrest in the moblie web
