Timeline+Assignment

= Timeline Assignment = ==== 1982: TIME Magazine names the computer the machine of the year. Going against the tradition of choosing a person of the year, TIME magazine chose a machine. This just shows how much of an impact the computer had on the world in 1982. Many important companies were founded within this year such as Compaq and Adobe. Apple also created the first personal home computer. Unfortunately, also in 1982, the first computer virus named "Elk Cloner" was created by a fifteen year old high school student.====

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==== 1997: Internet Explorer 4.0, created by Microsoft is released and instantly a hit with consumers. Internet explorers was also popular with web designers. With the new Dynamic HTML or DHTML allowed web designers to be more creative and they could have more free reign with designing and choosing the stlye for their web pages. After this development, web pages became easier to navigate and more interactive.====



==== 2006: ﻿Social networking sites grow to dramatically in popularity. MySpace, created in 2003 was originally the most appealing and most popular social networking site with eighty million users. Facebook, invented in 2004, was just available to its "epicenter" Harvard University, until it was released to the public in 2006. Facebook then went on to become the most popular photo-sharing website on the Internet. Now, in 2010, over 345,130,806 people use MySpace and a whopping 722,434,829 people worldwide use Facebook.====