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A joint industry-government committee develops American Standard Code for Information Interchangethe first universal for standardcomputers. It permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data.
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With Advanced Research Projects Agency:the US government program]funding, Larry Roberts and Thomas Marill create the first wide-area network connection
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The first commercially successful minicomputer is unveiled
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ntel’s release of the 4004, the first ‘computer on a chip,’ ushers in the epoch of the microprocessor
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Microsft was Founded.
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Apple was foounded.,
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an early example of a client server where users dial in to a server with requests to forward certain newsgroup postings
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Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs) commercially introduced in 1980
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Quantum is founded.
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ts purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or authorization limitations. It played a significant role in spreading awareness of, and access to, national networking and was a major milestone on the path to development of the global Internet
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ts purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or authorization limitations. It played a significant role in spreading awareness of, and access to, national networking and was a major milestone on the path to development of the global Internet
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Computer assisted instruction gains acceptance in schools
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Microsoft creates DOS
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ts purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or authorization limitations. It played a significant role in spreading awareness of, and access to, national networking and was a major milestone on the path to development of the global Internet
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IBM joins the computer race by announcing the IBM Personal Computer on August 12, 1981, which runs the new MS-DOS operating system and has a starting price of $1,565
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Xerox introduces the graphical Star workstation. This computer greatly influences the development of Apples future computer models, Lisa and Macintosh, as well as Microsoft's Windows.
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VMEbus is developed
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Microsoft creates DOS
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Tandy, Epson and NEC all sell notebook computers however only the Tandys model 100 becomes popular because of its low price of $499
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Soviet jets shoot down a civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 flying from New York to Seoul and kill all 269 passengers and crew. As a result of this mistake President Ronald Regan orders the U.S. military to make Global Positioning System (GPS) available for civilian use.
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Apple introduces the Macintosh, whose "user-friendly interface swells the ranks of new computer users
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Computers are starting to beregularly used in USA classrooms
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Microsoft releases Windows 1.0
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There are over 2,000 Internet hosts
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10,000 hosts on the Internet
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This was the start of commercial Internet services in the United States
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100,000 hosts on Internet
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World Wide Web introduced
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Anet ends
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IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS.
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Over 1 billion people use the Internet
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Teacher Tube is launched
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The ARPA Network was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to make the global Internet
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Thirty institutions across the globe are connected to the Apeanret
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Introduction of Apple 2 computer for homes and small businesse
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Microsoft Windows announced
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Over 5,000 hosts on the Internet
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25 million PCs were sold in the US
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