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First four-function calculator-clock was built by Wilhelm Schickard
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David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded the Hewlett-Packard. Together their first ever product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator.
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The navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT because they wanted to build a flight simulator.
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IBM’s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator or SSEC was able to calculate data near their headquarters in Manhattan.
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Built by Engineering Research Associates, this computer was able to store data on magnetic drums and was able to hold around 1 million bits.
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MIT students created and designed the game. It was first played at MIT and it allowed you to play against other people using the early version of "Joysticks"
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Ray Tomlinson sent the first email to himself. It was sent from one computer to another computer sitting directly beside the first one.
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Robert Morris created and sent the first viris. It was called, the "Worm" and it affected 6,000-60,000 people.
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Tim Berners-Lee developed a Hypertext Mark-up Language or HTML. HTML allowed the internet to turn into the WorldWideWeb using things like Uniform Resource Locator or URL and Hyper Text Transfer Protocol or HTTP.
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Facebook launched in February of 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. As of 2011 Facebook is worth around 41 billion dollars and has over 800 million users.
