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The famous Norden bombsight used aboard B-17 and B-29 bombers during World War II was a calculating device connected to an autopilot and controlled the airplane and held it steady when the bombs were released. These devices were all types of computers
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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) is created- Found a way that computers can talk
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computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time- The first hosts on
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An Arpanet network was established- Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN (the company
that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970
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Email was first developed- Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name)
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The beginning of TCP/IP- A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so-called "inter-network", which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol (which eventually became TCP/IP).
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Apple Computer Company was founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The company's first product was the Apple I, a computer single-handedly designed and hand-built by Wozniak, and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club
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The first Personal Computer Modem is Invented- The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists.
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Spam is born The first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk.
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MUD – The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted- The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD (short for MultiUser Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text-based virtual worlds, combining elements of role-playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat
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The first emoticon :-) The first emoticon was used While many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed using :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie.
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The domain name system was created The first Domain Name Servers (DNS) was created. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the Internet more human-friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an easy-to-remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically.
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World Wide Web protocols finished The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs.
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First web page created 1991 brought some major innovations to the world of the Internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was.
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Jeff Bezos incorporated Amazon in July 1994, with the website launching to the public a year later. According to Quora, the original name was going to be “Cadabra,” but Bezos misheard it as “cadaver.” ... Instead, the company focused primarily on books, the first of which was sold out of Bezos' garage.
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The First Item Listed on eBay was a Broken Laser Pointer. On Labor Day weekend in 1995, computer programmer Omidyar wrote the code for what he called an "experiment." He wanted to know what would happen if everyone in the world had access to a single global marketplace.
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The very popular search engine called Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The site was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Edward Kasner and James Newman
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The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hi
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by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal
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Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app exclusively for the iOS operating system.
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In November 2012, Spiegel cited problems with userbase scalability as the reason why Snapchat was experiencing some difficulties delivering its images, known as "snaps", in real time. Snapchat was released as an Android app
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The game is based around combined arms battles on air, land, and sea with vehicles from the Spanish Civil War to the Cold War period with an emphasis on World War II. Players have access to more than 800 playable aircraft, tanks, and ships from the Soviet Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Japanese Empire, the United States, and Italy. Other nations, such as France, Canada, Australia, and Romania, are also featured as part of the arsenal of the six main nations.
