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In 1803 the Sydney Gazette was published and was classified the first Australian Newspaper Published.
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Charles Babbage technically invented the computer which was also known as the abacus.
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The fax machine was invented in 1843 by Alexander Bain.
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The telegraph was first introduced in 1844 from Washington to Baltimore.
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The telephone was born in 1876 and then only a year later In 1877-78, the first telephone line was constructed. Then almost three years later, almost 49,000 telephones were in use.
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The first radio single was recorded to be in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi.
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ABC in Australia begin in 1932 and still on air in 2017.
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Television was first introduced to Australia to coincide with the Melbourne Olympic Games. It took only 8 years for 80% of all Australian households to own a television sets.
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The first hacker was in 1963 named Kevin David Mitnick who hacked into the American computer security.
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The first email program was developed in 1975 and the first email was sent from Kevin McKenzie who emailed the MsgGroup.
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The term Cyberspce was born by William Gibson in 1984 which can be described as how computer users can inhabit a new kind of mental space, within and between computers' ( Bainbridge, 2015 ).
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In 1994 the first blog post was created by US College student Justin Hall on link.net.
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The first portable music device was introduced the Saehin / Eiger Labs engineers. Even though portable music devices before the MP3 had been around for awhile ( Cassette Players and Walkmens). The MP3 was the first portable device that required no additional disk. This technology has forever changed how we share and listen music.
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Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were both Ph.D students at Stanford University. Interesting fact is that google is so well known that the name has become a verb.
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Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. This internet site is still used in 2017.
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Myspace was the first social media that i was aware existed since then other platforms of social media have over taken the myspace for popularity
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Facebook was founded my Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. There are currently 2 Billion actives users on Facebook and the number is only rising daily.
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Youtube was founded by previous employees of PayPal in 2005. Youtube is a social media platform where users can upload,create,share, comment on and view videos. According to an article by Huffington Post there are currently 1 billion active users on Youtube (Huffington Post, 2016).
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In 2015, twitter reported 288 million monthly active users. Twitters coming of age was throughout the 2008 Mumbai Bombing.
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The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006 but didn't become a household name until 2010 when he published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning.
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It's only been 6 years since the release of snapchat but currently has 158 million users in the world and the number is only growing daily.
