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is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates: IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS.
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Microsoft: MS-DOS Computer Operating System increases its success
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interfaceCyberspace: William Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer
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Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows, as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern InternetMicrosoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems
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The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide WebYAHOO.
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EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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Java is introducedAmazon: Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
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Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
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Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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1998PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin
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Bill Gates introduces the Xbox
