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Created in the living room of his parents, Konrad Zuse, a German, built the first computer programmable by binary. It was made between 1936 and 1938. -
The internet was created in the late 1960s, and was meant for a way for government researchers to share information with each other. Leonard Kleinrock published a book called "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" in 1962 on May 31st, and is credited for the initial idea for the internet. -
Samsung is a company that creates electronics for consumers. Created in South Korea, Samsung used to make black-and white televisions in 1969 and the 1970's. -
The first cellphone was invented by Dr. Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola. The prototype was called the
DynaTAC8000X, and the first person Cooper called was his rival, Joel Engel (the head of research at Bell Labs). -
Apple is a computer corporation founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in California. Apple creates electronics for computers such as laptops, mobile phones, computer software, etc. -
Gary Thuerk sent a message to hundreds of ARPa users. His company made millions of dollars by advertising using the spam mail, although there were many complaints. Thuerk send the world's first spam mail. -
Bill Gates first introduced Windows on November 10, 1983. The first version, Windows 1, was released in 1985. Before it was announced as Windows, the initial creation dates back to 1981 when Microsoft was working on a program called "Interface Manager" (which is now Windows). -
Created by Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, Brain was the first computer virus and started by infecting floppy disks. They ran a computer store in Pakistan and created Brain because they grew tired of customers copying their software illegally. -
Although unable to be played across the internet (because it was linked to a singular network and could not cross routers), SGI Dogfight was the first game to use internet protocol. It was originally written by Gary Tarolli at Silicon Graphics, the late founder of 3dfx. -
WordWideWeb, developed by Tim Berners-Lee, was the first web browser. It was introduced to CERN in 1991, and was renamed to Nexus much later. -
The first picture to ever be uploaded to the internet was a picture of a band of four women. The picture was uploaded by Tim Burners Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. -
In 1994, the first ever retail transaction over the web (that was secure) was made. It either happened on NetMarket or Internet Shopping Network. amazon launched their services shortly after, in 1995. -
Match.com was the first dating site to go onto the internet. It was created by an American engineer, Gary Kremen -
The inventors of WiFi were John O'Sullivan, Terence Percival, Diethelm Ostry, John Deane, and Graham Daniels. WiFi allowed nearby devices to exchange data by radio waves. -
Google became the most used web-based search engine. It was launced by Larry age and Sergey Brin who were students at Stanford University. In 1996, Google was first known as "BackRub". -
Developed by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, Napster gave people access to music files for free. It's peak was about 80 million users. It changed the music industry, aggravated the creators of the music, and gave way to Spotify. -
Still available for download as of now, Ad Muncher was the very first ad blocker to set foot on the internet. Though not very effective on HTTPS websites, it was popular due to it's ease of use. -
WEBTOON is a popular website where anyone can upload web-comics, and read them at any time. It was launched in South Korea by Naver Corporation, and was created by JunKoo Kim. -
Vocaloid is a software that was developed by a research group (led by Kenmochi Hideki) in Barcelona, Spain, at the Pompeu Fabra University. Vocaloid is similar to "text to speech", but instead it's "text to sing". -
YouTube was created by three ex-PayPal workers: Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley. It's an American video-sharing platform.