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First Programmable Computer
"The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room between 1936 and 1938. It is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, and the first really functional modern computer."
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The First Smartphone
"The first smartphone was developed by IBM and BellSouth, which came out to the public in 1993. Althought basic compared to today’s standards “Simon” had a touch screen that was capable of accessing email and sending faxes."
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Google
"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. To the site's founders, the name represents the immense amount of information that a search engine has to sift through."
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Six Degrees
This website allowed user to create a profile and add people. Even users that did not sign up for the website where able to add people. http://historycooperative.org/the-history-of-social-media/ -
Internet
In 2000 around 100 million had access to he internet. More and more people were using it for chat rooms, to make friends or even start dating. http://historycooperative.org/the-history-of-social-media/ -
Myspace
Myspace was the popular social media website to set up a profile and make friends. MySpace was the original social media profile website. Artists used to promote their music on myspace which gave them base fans.
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Facebook
"Back in 2004, Facebook (TheFacebook.com then) was launched just for Harvard students. Zuckerberg saw the potential and released the service to the world at the website facebook.com." http://historycooperative.org/the-history-of-social-media/ -
Youtube
Youtube was started by using a Flickr-style to share videos. The first video was a 19-second shot of Karim at the San Diego Zoo. By 2006 Youtube was getting over 700 million views a week. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990787,00.html -
Twitter
"In 2006, the popularity of text messaging or SMS inspired Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Noah Glass and Evan Williams to create Twitter, a service that had the unique distinction of allowing users to send “tweets” of 140 characters or less. Today, Twitter has over 500 million users."
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The First IPhone
"On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone at the Macworld convention. On June 29, 2007, Apple began selling the new iPhone."
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-iphone-1992004 -
Instagram
"Instagram, founded in 2010, derived its name from the combination of “instant camera” and “telegram.” Starting with one million monthly users, the photo-sharing app found itself with 100 million uploaded photos by July 2011 and 10 million users in September of that same year"
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Snapchat
"Just a little over four years ago, Snapchat was supposedly just an idea that founder Evan Spiegel and friends had while in a class at Stanford"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-vaynerchuk/the-snap-generation-a-gui_b_9103216.html
