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Designed by Charles Babbage -
The Dewey Decimal System is a classification system created to collect, organize, and share information of the world in a comprehensive document center (Chayko, 2020). -
The first digitally operated and programmed robot, which was named 'Unimate', was created and utilized on a New Jersey Assembly Line (Chayko, 2020). https://youtu.be/-Xl2c91pWGc -
Created by IBM and Hewlett-Packard and mainly used for scientific and research purposes. -
The first mobile phone was created by Martin Cooper, and weighed two pounds and had a battery life of 20 minutes (Chayko, 2020). -
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the first Apple computer in Steve Job's garage (Chayko, 2020). -
Within the 1980s 'Darknets' began to arise which were secretive sites that often included illegal activities, and does not appear in search engines. Instead, users must manually enter the URL (Chayko, 2020). -
Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web (WWW), which is a collection of documents linked together through a system named hypertext (Chayko, 2020). -
Berners-Lee was determined to make the internet decentralized and free to any particular organization. It was made free by CERN (Chayko, 2020). -
Justin Hall created the first blog, in which he posted online about his life on links.net which is still active today. Justin Hall's Twitter where he has hyperlinks to his original blog website- https://twitter.com/jah -
Specialty service that was introduced to the internet for consumers (Chayko, 2020). -
This act was passed and called for all US classrooms, libraries, and hospitals to be connected to the internet (Chayko, 2020). A PDF version of the official Act- https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.pdf -
Although developed in the mid-1990s, it did not become available to the public until late 1997. The development of Google revolutionized web searching (Chayko, 2020). Interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google)- https://youtu.be/ZntsbxyDrFw -
In the early 2000s, cell phones became smaller and more affordable, and had the ability to be used as mini entertainment centers and information centers. People could now text message and web browse as well (Chayko, 2020). -
Wikipedia was created which is still used today by over 20 million users. -
Between the development of iTunes and Youtube (2005), a culture of music was introduced to the internet and digital media (Chayko, 2020). -
Myspace was launched which drew towards music and bands particularly, and enabled people to connect with others based on their interests and preferences (Chayko, 2020). -
Facebook was created originally as a Harvard-only site, but eventually spread to other colleges and high schools in 2005. It then moved forward to become the world's largest social networking site (Chayko, 2020). -
Both streaming services were created in 2007 and has had great success (Chayko, 2020). -
The first Instagram post by Kevin Systrom, the creator of Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/C/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link