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The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leanard Klienrock after he published his first paper "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.
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Lawrence G. Roberts published a paper on an experimental wide area network (WAN) for computer time sharing.
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Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, and incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California.
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The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version of the IBM model number 5150. It was introduced on August 12, 1981.
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On Septemeber 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon: the humble smiley
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The first virus is called the Brain and was written by two brothers from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1986.
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On November 2, 1988, Cornell student Robert T. Morris launched the very first computer worm on the internet.
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Tim Berners- Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN.
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Discovered in 1991, the Michelangelo virus was designed to infect DOS systems.
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The Mosaic web browser launched on January 23, 1993.
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The original Yahoo company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.
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Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994 in Bellevue, Washington.
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EBAY was founded on September 3, 1995 in San Jose, California.
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Internet Explorer is a graphical web browser by Microsoft.
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The Modem was invented by Dr. Brent Townshend in 1996.
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Paul Baran developed the concept Distributed Adaptive Message Block Switching with the goal to provide a fault-tolerant, efficient routing method.
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AOL Instant Messenger was initially integrated into AOL Desktop and released in May of 1997.
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Google was founded on September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park, CA.
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The first known mobile virus, "Timofonica" originated in Spain and was identified by antivirus labs in Russia and Finland in June 2000.
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ITunes was launched on January 9, 2001 by Apple.
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Safari was launched on January 7, 2003 by Apple.
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Facebook is a social networking service launched as FaceMash in July, 2003, but later changing to Facebook in 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roomate Eduardo Saverin.
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YouTube is a sharing service that allows you to watch videos posted by other users. It was created by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley, and Steve Chen.
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Apple launched the iPhone on June 29, 2007
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Pinterest was launched on January of 2010.
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Instagram was launched on October 6, 2010. Kevin Systrom posted the first photo on Instagram on July 16, 2010.
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Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications for US $8.5 billion.
