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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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Agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957.
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The initial idea of the Internet is credited to Leonard Kleinrock after he published his first paper entitled "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" on May 31, 1961.
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The concept was then developed by RAND Corporation researcher Paul Baran. Baran wrote an eleven-volume analysis, “On Distributed Communications,” for the Air Force in August 1964.
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The Creeper program, often regarded as the first virus, was created in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN.
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The Apple I went on sale in 1976 as an assembled circuit board with a retail price of $666.66.
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Dennis C. Hayes invented the personal computer modem in 1977, marking the emergence of the online and Internet era. In the beginning, modems were used primarily to communicate between data terminals and a host computer.
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On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon:
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Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a team of engineers and designers directed by Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Florida.
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The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, was one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet.
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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 4 February 1991 in Australia.
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Was developed in the United States by Marc Andreessen and others at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois and was released in September 1993.
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Founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California. Y
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Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, as a website that only sold books, founder Jeff Bezos had a vision for the company's explosive growth and e-commerce domination.
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eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launches AuctionWeb, a site "dedicated to bringing together buyers and sellers in an honest and open marketplace."
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Internet Explorer (IE), a World Wide Web (WWW) browser, and a set of technologies created by Microsoft Corporation, a leading American computer software company. After being launched in 1995.
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Introduced in 1997, AOL Instant Messenger was one of the world's most popular instant messaging clients.
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The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most widely used web-based search engine.
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Apple released version 1.0 of the program under a new name "iTunes" on January 9, 2001, at Macworld San Francisco.
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Safari was introduced within Mac OS X Panther in January 2003, and as of 2021, has progressed through fifteen major versions. The third generation (January 2007) brought compatibility to the iPhone via iPhone OS 1,
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On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.
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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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Was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007. The device, which didn't actually go on sale until June, started at $499 for a 4GB model, $599 for the 8GB version
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launched on Oct. 6, 2010, where it was initially only available for iOS
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Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp, and Paul Sciarra co-founded Pinterest back in March 2010.
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Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion; creates new business division. The rumors were right. Microsoft announced on May 10 that it bought Skype, an Internet communications vendor, for $8.5 billion.