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Charles Babbage makes the first mechanical computer
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Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail and it was a simple test message to himself.
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Bob Metcalfe invented the Ethernet. He described the Ethernet network system to interconnect advanced computer workstations, making it possible to send data to another system faster. (his picture below)
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Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) which is a communications model that sets standards for how data can be transmitted between multiple networks
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The World Wide Web or "W3" browser went live on the very first server. It was run on Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT computer at CERN whis is an acronym for Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire
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CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) puts its World Wide Web into the public domain, having everyone able to use it.
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The first online purchase was an order for a large pepperoni and mushroom pizza with extra cheese from Pizza Hut.
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The first version of Internet Explorer was found on August 16, 1995
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The first viral video was a dancing 3D model of a baby dancing. It was named the Oogachaka baby
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Entrepreneurs Larry Page and Sergey Brin register the domain of Google.com, the aim of this was to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information and data on the web.
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AOL Instant messenger was created in May 1997 and had the largest share of the internet messaging market in North America.
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MSN messenger was created by Microsoft. The name was MSN messenger from 1999 to 2006 but then was renamed to Windows Live Messenger
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The co-founders of Mozilla Firefox is Blake Ross along with Dave Hyatt.
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Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis were the founders of Skype. Skype was originally called Skyper.
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Mark Zuckerberg created facebook which was a social-networking websites for students, specifically for the students at Harvard University.
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Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim invented Youtube which was a video sharing website
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As of this year there has had an estimated amount of 92 million websites!
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Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone created Twitter which is a social media website where people could post "tweet" on their timelines.
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Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger were the founders of Instagram. Instagram is a video/photo sharing social media website/app
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Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown created Snapchat. Snapchat is a social media app where people can converse or express themselves through pictures.
