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The first mechanical computer was made by Charles Babbage and it was a small working model. He then made a large scale computer one year later with the help of the British government. He stopped working on it in 1833 and began working on a fully mechanical digital computer called, Analytical Engine.
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The first videogame was created in October by a physicist named, William Higinbotham. The game was named, Tennis for Two and consisted of a bouncing ball which was a dot, a line for the ground, and a small line for the net. The game would be played on an oscilloscope, an electronic instrument and was popular at the Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.
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ARPANET which stands for, Advanced Research Projects Agency Network was funded by ARPA, part of the U.S. Defense Department and was the first wide-area network . J. C. R. Licklider came up with the idea and Bob Taylor executed it in 1966 to allow computers to access it.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ARPANET
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The first ".com" domain was registered by a computer company called, Symbolics Inc. The company was located in Massachusetts, U.S.A but over time the ownership changed.
https://www.internetx.com/en/news-detailview/the-history-of-the-domain-name-industry/#:~:text=1985%20%E2%80%93%20The%20first%20ever%20registration,the%20computer%20company%20Symbolics%20Inc. -
Photoshop was invented by two brothers named, Thomas and John Knoll and they sold its rights to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.Thomas Knoll was a University Student in Michigan and was programming to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. At the time is was called Display but the renamed it to Photoshop a few years later. His brother got interested and they worked together on this project and created this program.
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The first search engines were JumpStation, the World Wide Web Worm, and the Repository, but the first major search engine was Archie. It was the most advanced search engine during its time and it was possible to search through a site's file directories. Many people used it and was difficult to use but it was a useful tool.
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World Wide Web is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and is accessible to the world. English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau invented the World Wide Web in 1989.The The browser was released outside CERN to other research institutions in January 1991, and then to the public in August 1991.
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The first ever online web cam was coffee machine called, Trojan Room coffee pot and the pot was created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky. It was created so that workers can monitor the coffee. After the camera was connected to the Internet a few years later, the coffee pot gained fame.
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Amazon is an American internet sales company and was created by Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos left his job as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington to pursue his goal of creating Amazon. It was originally called Cadabra but he changed it to Amazon later. He would use and operate Amazon from a garage but now Amazon is worth $1.65 trillion.
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Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both attended Stanford's computer science graduate program in 1995. They became friends and worked together to create Google. Google was initially called, BackRub and it was Larry's research project but now it is worth $1210 billion as of 2020.
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WIFI was invented and released in 1997 when a committee called, IEE 802.11 was created. WIFI is a family of wireless network protocols and is used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, which allows nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves. As of 2019, over 3.05 billion Wi-Fi enabled devices are shipped globally each year.
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In 1999, Napstar made their music free because young children, teenagers, and adults were downloading music illegally. When it was released it was huge because adolescents and adults were using this app to listen to music and were a fan of it.
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic. It was executed with networks of internet-connected machines. The hackers could hack into your computer and do what ever they want because they had bots with them also.
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Wikipedia began with its first started on 2001, two days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It is the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, and the concept of an open source online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman in 1998. Wikipedia has become so big that 117 million users use it and this is only in the United States.
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Facebook is a social networking service and it was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and other college roommates. It was originally called FaceMash then changed to TheFacebook then to Facebook and now Meta. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges slowly. By September 2006, everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older.
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Gmail was created in 2004 by Paul Buchheit and is a free advertising-supported webmail service with support for Email clients. It is was created by Google and now it has integrated with other products and services from many other companies. Yahoo, Mail, and Hotmail were already email services that were created and Gmail came later. Sanjeev Singh, an engineer, joined him a month later.
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YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform which is located in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion.. You could use Youtube to upload videos, watch videos, like and dislike comments and videos, subscribe to creators, etc. Youtube has almost anything you need to know and is a very useful platform.
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The iPhone was created by Steve Jobs who was the CEO of Apple in 2007. The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that use Apple's iOS mobile operating system. Apple and Android are the two biggest smartphone platforms. Ever since the first iPhone there have been many other iPhones the latest on is a iPhone 13. Apple's net worth as of 2022 is $2.948 trillion.
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Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012, Facebook Inc. (now Meta) acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and they are shared publicly. Users can like photos, follow other users, upload pictures and message others on this platform.
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Pokémon Go is an augmented reality mobile game developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. It uses mobile devices with GPS to locate, capture, train, and battle virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location. It is a free game and was a very popular game when it first was released.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go
