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Apple was founded as Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer
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Pixar began as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group
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Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO John Sculley
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Pixar spin-off as a corporation with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
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The World Wide Web became publicly available
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Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington initially an online marketplace for books
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WALL-E conceived of with the idea, "What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?"
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Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California
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A story reel of the first twenty minutes of the film is created. Steve Jobs was impressed and officially began development
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YouTube was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.”
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Disney purchased Pixar at a valuation of $7.4+ billion
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The first-generation iPhone was announced by then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs
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Amazon introduces the Kindle e-Reader
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Over 90% of the Internet access subscriptions use high-speed broadband
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Siri was released as an app for iOS. Two months later, Apple acquired it and integrated into iPhone 4S
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The first generation of iPad released
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Amazon unveils Amazon Echo, a wireless speaker and voice command device that can take commands and queries