The
microprocesser was invented in 1971.
ARPANET, the first "Internet",
was launched in 1969.
The first word processing software, the Electric
Pencil was released in 1975.
WordStar word processing software was released
in 1975.
The Floppy disk was invented in 1971.
The first cellular phone communication
network was launched in Japan, in 1979.
Dr. Brent Townshend invented the 56K modem
in 1996.
Software Appliation giants, Aldus and Adobe,
merged in 1994.
Did you know that the original URL of yahoo!
was http://akebono.stanford.edu/ ?
Did you know that Digital Equipment Corporation
was the first computer compnay to regiser a doamin
name?
TCP/IP was designed in 1973.
Sathyam Online became the first private
ISP in December 1998 to offter Internet connections
in India.
Boing was the first airline to discover
the Y2K problem, way back in 1993
In
1993, ther were 26,000 domain names in use. in
1999, there were 5 million web sites.
After English, Japanese and then German are themost
used languages on the Net.
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