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The Mouse
Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse he called it this because the cord made it look like a mouse -
Email
Emailing was invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1972. -
Potable computer
Altair produces the first portable computer -
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Operating Systems
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS -
Navigating
Commands no longer need to be typed and can be used via the mouse -
WWW.
The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991 -
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Ebay
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 where you can find anything you need. https://www.ebay.com -
Amazon
Finally a website where you can purchase just about anything is created by Jeff Bezos. https://www.amazon.com/ -
Google
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998 -
Pay Pal
PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, its a way to send money to others -
X-Box
Bill gates introduces the XBox -
Number of PC's
In 2002 there was a recorded over 1 billion PC's sold
