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  2. Cats and the Internet - Wikipedia

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    Harry Pointer (1822–1889) has been cited as the "progenitor of the shameless cat picture". [6] Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s. [7] The first cat video on YouTube was uploaded in 2005 by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who posted a video of his cat called "Pajamas and Nick Drake". [7]

  3. Timeline of computer animation in film and television

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    An early use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture. [36] The Rescuers Down Under: First 2-D animated film to be produced with solely digital ink and paint . First fully digital feature film. Backdraft: 1991 First use of photorealistic CGI fire in a motion picture. [36] Terminator 2 ...

  4. History of computing - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, the concept of numbers became concrete and familiar enough for counting to arise, at times with sing-song mnemonics to teach sequences to others. All known human languages, except the Piraha language, have words for at least the numerals "one" and "two", and even some animals like the blackbird can distinguish a surprising number of items.

  5. History of software - Wikipedia

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    A pivotal moment in computing history was the publication in the 1980s of the specifications for the IBM Personal Computer published by IBM employee Philip Don Estridge, which quickly led to the dominance of the PC in the worldwide desktop and later laptop markets – a dominance which continues to this day.

  6. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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    November 10: Agobot is a computer worm that can spread itself by exploiting vulnerabilities on Microsoft Windows. Some of the vulnerabilities are MS03-026 and MS05-039. [37] November 20: Bolgimo is a computer worm that spread itself by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability at Microsoft Windows DCOM RPC Interface (CVE-2003-0352). [38]

  7. Computer - Wikipedia

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    A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...

  8. Timeline of computing hardware before 1950 - Wikipedia

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    An excellent computer history site; the present article is a modified version of his timeline, used with permission. The Evolution of the Modern Computer (1934 to 1950): An Open Source Graphical History, article from Virtual Travelog

  9. Timeline of computing - Wikipedia

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    Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing; The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012.