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2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [545] [546] [547] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded
The polarizing McDonald's sandwich is turned 43 this year, having made its debut as a test item in 1981. As history has shown, the saucy, sloppy seasonal staple has developed a devoted fan base ...
The money was used to fund project MAC which subsumed the "AI Group" founded by Minsky and McCarthy five years earlier. DARPA continued to provide $3 million each year until the 70s. [130] DARPA made similar grants to Newell and Simon's program at Carnegie Mellon University and to Stanford University's AI Lab, founded by John McCarthy in 1963 ...
Yahoo! Search, launched the same year, was the first popular search engine on the World Wide Web. Yahoo! became the quintessential example of a first mover on the Web. Online shopping began to emerge with the launch of Amazon's shopping site by Jeff Bezos in 1995 and eBay by Pierre Omidyar the same year.
2017: AOL officially shutters its Instant Messenger platform after a 20-year run. It also announces the inception of Oath, Verizon's new digital umbrella, bringing AOL, Yahoo, HuffPost, Engadget ...
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
Year Name Chief developer, company Predecessor(s) 1804 Jacquard machine: Joseph Marie Jacquard: none (unique language) 1879 Begriffsschrift: Gottlob Frege: none (unique language) 1943–45 Plankalkül (year of conceptualization) Konrad Zuse: none (unique language) 1943–46 ENIAC coding system
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).