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Beginning of internet as we know today, (Blogs, Social Media, etc)
Militaries implementation of the Brigade Combat Team. (combining Modern Technology with Military doctrine)

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Grace Hooper finds first computer 'bug'
-Harvard Mark II

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-Apple II is invented
-first ready-made personal computer
- easy to install and use
- easy to program software for
- led to creation of the VisiCalc
A.L

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TCP invented.
ER.

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Youtube

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-FCC deregulates telephone network.
-Allows anyone to connect their devices to the telephone network.  M. M.

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SpaceWar (DD)
-World's first computer game
-Hackers produced it

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- Fear that computers would crash when crossing over to 2000 (New Years).
-Many  businesses start using computers for business activities (accounting) because personal computers become more affordable. If computers had crashed on New Years it would have been very detrimental.
- Microsoft acquires Great Plains Software.

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Moore's law
Defines reduction in size and cost and increase in power.
AH

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- iTunes Store was developed.
- Digital Media went mainstream.

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BBS bulletin board system

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- First two Apple Stores open.
- Mac OS x
- i-Tunes
- Windows XP
- Bit-Torrent

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- HTML initially released (DF)

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Apple releases iPhone

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- Altair 8800 first announced
- Cheap & small to fit desk top
- Computer for the mass

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- Birth Year of Great Tech Contributors
- Right time to be born to be ready for 1975 Personal Computer Reveloution
- Young enough and not to old to technologically savvy enough to contribute in the internet era boom.
H.B.

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-First internet message sent through ARPA (EP)

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*Sputnik
*Soviets ahead in Cold War
*Propelled research and research funding in tech, comm, and science

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- One of the most ubiquitous companies on the Internet today
- Has had its hand in many things that shape how we use the Internet today (gmail/Android/docs/drive/search)
- The biggest accomplishment of the Internet is to be able to find any information/content you want whenever you want to, which is not possible without a near-perfect search engine

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IBM launches first PC. It happens to be built on an open system which itself acts as a microcosm for what the internet becomes: different devices combined through common technology

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- greatest potential for change
- highest number of internet users (over 3.5 billion)
NHG