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Mostly computers were used in the labs of businesses to comunicate in the working envirorment
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The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer.
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President Eisenhower requests funds to create ARPA. Approved as a line item in Air Force appropriations bill.
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The floppy disk is invented at IBM by David Noble,
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Development of UNIX operating system begun.
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First microcomputer implementation of BASIC by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, it was written for the MITS Altair, this led to the formation of Microsoft later in the year.
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Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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Introduction of the 16-bit Intel 8086, the first x86 microprocessor.
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Apple Computer introduces the Macintosh on January 24th
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10,000 hosts on the Internet.
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25 million PCs sold in US
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Web grows by 341,000 percent in a year
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Windows 95 released
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Netscape announces plans to give its browser away for free.
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AOL Merges with Time-Warner. AOL shareholders take 55% stake in newly formed company.
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10,000,000 domain names have been registered.
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1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats.
