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First Practical Computer

First Spam Email

The King James Bible

First World Fair

The World of Tomorrow

Eclipse MV/8000 Launched

Music Library in Your Pocket

Xerox Fumbles the Future

Shakespeare Baptized

Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice

Funding the Library of Congress

Vitascope Introduced

One Billion Hard Drives Shipped

World Digital Library Launches

Computer-based Air Defense

The Osborne Effect

Apple Makes A Big Move

LiveJournal Goes Live

Inventing the Movies

Monte Carlo Simulation

First Computer Code

The 1936 Personal Computer

Happy Birthday, MIT!

First Public Library

First 3D Movies

The Death of Distance

High-Speed Photography

Microsoft and Netscape

First Mobile Phone Call

Killer AI Arrives

Apple, The Well and the Web

A New Type of Electric Eye

Moving Data by Air

First PC Convention

First Sound Recording

New York City Vs. the Census Bureau

First Moon Shot

The Rise of Home PCs

The First Tweet

Managing Information

First Patent System

First Personal Broadcast

House of Wisdom

Rocket Scientists

First Internet Domain Name

First Fully Transistorized Computer

Moving Pictures

Unleashing the Web

The Impact of Automation on Jobs

Automated Telephone Exchanges

The Wealth of Nations

The Rights of Authors

The Accidental Inventor

The Oscarization of the Web

Morse Meets Daguerre

First Photo Studio

The Rights of Photographs

Optical Signals

The Computer Industry

Art of Compiling Statistics

Why The Internet Never Forgets

The Impact of AI on Jobs

Encyclopedia of Life

The APT Language

Regulating Radio

First Presidential Radio Broadcast

First Telephone Directory

Turing Saw the Future of Computing

Talking machines

Boston Computer Society

The First Social Network

Inventing Movies

To Marry or Not to Marry

The Light Bulb Goes On

Race Against the Machine

Transatlantic TV

First Sputnik Moment

Calculating Machines

4 Simultaneous Text Messages

Writing at a Distance RFP

Music Streaming

Word Chronicles

First Social Security Check

First Cash Register

First Librarian

First Telephone Switchboard

Displaying the SSEC

First Printed Pentateuch

Talbot Presents Sun-Pictures

The Mac Arrives

“Superintelligence”

Fighting Epidemics

The Man Who Made Lists

Wikipedia Launched

Smart Watch Arrives

First Radio Broadcast

Launching the Information Superhighway

Standardizing Communications

Advances in Telephony

Automating Data Tabulation

First Machine Translation Demo

Scientific Journals Arrive

Machine of the Year

First Killer App

Silicon Valley Birthplace

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