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Television-development of the Telechrome system.
Development of the Telechrome system. Similar concepts were common through the 1940s and 50s, differing primarily in the way they re-combined the colors generated -
John Golden Theatre
It also operated as a movie house in the late 1940s and '50s -
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the Soviets launched Sputnik
the Soviets launched Sputnik, man's first foray into outer space, and the U.S. government under President Eisenhower subsequently launched an aggressive military campaign -
Sending a man to the moon
through the time period of 40s-50s we wanted to send a man to space and we started researching/ working on a spaceship -
RPG
Report Program Generator, a programming language developed by IBM in the mid-60's for developing business applications, especially generating reports from data. -
Contract was made
ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Mass. -
the @ sign was created
READMAIL. "@" sign chosen for its "at" meaning. -
First Internet college
First ARPANET international connections to University College of London (England) and NORSAR (Norway) -
Apple Company
Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. -
first personal computer
IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS. -
uses the internet to write the first book
William Gibson writes "Neuromancer." Coins the term "cyberspace". -
surfing the internet
"Surfing the Internet" is coined by Jean Armour Polly. -
Windows 95 released.
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business.com
business.com sold for $150,000. -
100,000 hosts on Internet.
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High-speed internet
Fixed wireless, high-speed Internet technology is now seen as a viable alternative to copper and fiber optic lines placed in the ground. -
web pages double
There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet, numbers doubling since February 2000. -
Internet users
1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats -
tunes
Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads.
