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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
  • Period: to

    Internet Time Period

  • the Soviets launched Sputnik

    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

    Contract was made

    ARPANet contract given to Bolt, Beranek & Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Mass.
  • the @ sign was created

    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 Company

    Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
  • first personal computer

    first personal computer

    IBM announces its first Personal Computer. Microsoft creates DOS.
  • uses the internet to write the first book

    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.

    Windows 95 released.

  • business.com

    business.com sold for $150,000.

  • 100,000 hosts on Internet.

  • High-speed internet

    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

    web pages double

    There are 20,000,000 websites on the Internet, numbers doubling since February 2000.
  • Internet users

    Internet users

    1.114 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats
  • tunes

    tunes

    Apple surpasses one billion iTunes downloads.