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The first known WAN was created by the U.S. Air Force in the late 1950s to interconnect sites in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar defense system.
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ARPA was formally authorized by President Eisenhower in 1958 for the purpose of forming and executing research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, and able to reach far beyond immediate military requirements.
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Packet switching was invented independently by Paul Baran and Donald Davies in the early and mid 1960s and then developed by a series of scientists and engineers in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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in 1962 by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). Created by Dennis C. Hayes.
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Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers.
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The IBM PC debuted on August 12, 1981, after a twelve-month development. Pricing started at $1,565 for a configuration with 16 KB RAM, Color Graphics Adapter, keyboard, and no disk drives.
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Although it has been claimed that the first emoticon appeared in 1979, the first substantiated use of an emoticon came from American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman on September 19, 1982.
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ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.
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Brain, the first PC virus, began infecting 5.2" floppy disks in 1986.
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The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention.
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Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN.
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The Michelangelo virus is a computer virus first discovered on 3 February 1991 in Australia. The virus was designed to infect DOS systems, but did not engage the operating system or make any OS calls.
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Mosaic, the first web browser to win over the Net masses, was released in 1993 and made freely accessible to the public. The adjective phenomenal, so often overused in this industry, is genuinely applicable to the... 'explosion' in the growth of the web after Mosaic appeared on the scene.
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Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
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Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994.
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Internet Explorer was first launched on August 16, 1995, as part of the Plus! add-on package for Windows 95. Created by Microsoft Corporation.
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eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in September 1995.
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AOL Instant Messenger was finally launched in May of 1997 (Bowman, 2017).
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Google is an American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Since 2015, Google has been a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet, Inc.
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The iTunes media platform was first released by Apple in 2001 as a simple music player for Mac computers.
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Apple's Safari was released in 2003 as the default browser on Macintosh personal computers and later on iPhones (2007) and iPads (2010).
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In June 2004, security researchers were sent copies of the first mobile virus, Cabir, a worm that infected the Symbian 60 OS.
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Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
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YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal.
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Apple's first iPhone was announced by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and it was released on June 29, 2007.
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Pinterest was founded in January 2010 by by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp as an evolution of a previous app, Tote.The Instagram app was launched on Oct. 6, 2010, and racked up 25,000 users in one day.
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On 10 May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications, S. à r.l for US$8.5 billion. It was incorporated as a division of Microsoft, which acquired all its technologies with the purchase.