The first electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was built during World War II and was the size of a large room.
The first successful communication via computer was sent in 1969 between researchers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute.
The first personal computer, the Altair 8800, was released in 1975 by MITS and was based on the Intel 8080 microprocessor.
The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper.
The first commercial cellular network was launched in 1983 by NTT in Japan.
The first website went live on August 6, 1991, and was hosted at CERN.
The first search engine, Archie, was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University.
The first digital camera was developed by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975 and it weighed 8 pounds (3.63 Kg).
The first e-commerce transaction was made in 1994, when a man in the US bought a CD by the British rock band Sting through his AOL account.
The first social networking site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997 by Andrew Weinreich.
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