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  Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
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  the word internet was used.
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  Altair produces the first portable computer The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
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  Gary Thuerk sent the first spam email to 400 users or ARPANET advertising his DEC's new range of minicomputers.
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  Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
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  Wi-fi wirless internet technology is standardized. Sean fanning created and released his infamous Napster. He was only 18.
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  Revolutionizing web-based videos. Google bought youtube for $1.6 Billion the following years.
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  September 12: eBay acquires Skype
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  Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users
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  Golbally, mobile data exceeded an exabyte (a billion gigabytes) for the first time.
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  E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson