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1893
So it begins, wireless communication invented by Nikola Tesla
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October, 1858
In the beginning was the Cable...
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October, 1969
The internet is born, but there's no such thing as a website.
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December, 1989
20 years later the world's first websites arrive.
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January, 1994
Netscape,Yahoo and Amazon launch.
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March, 1997
The 1,000,000th domain launches. Time Magazine announces, "Welcome to the wired world."
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May, 2000
The NASDAQ hits a record high of 5,048, before plunging by 78% during the dot com bust.
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November, 2001
Microsoft launches Xbox Live, its online multiplayer gaming service.
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July, 2001
More and more website launches and Drupal 1.0 released
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2003
This was quite a busy year: iTunes Music Store, MySpace, Linkedin, Skype and WordPress launch. iTunes sells over $1M in music during its first week.
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September, 2002
Wifi goes mainstream.
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February, 2004
Mark Zuckerberg launches "TheFacebook" which is later renamed Facebook.
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December, 2004
Web 2.0: The internet becomes a two-way street. Businesses demand tools to manage their sites.
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February, 2005
Youtube is founded on Valentines Day. It will be bought out by Google just 1 year later for $1.65B
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December, 2007
iPhone 1 is released. Local development tools appear.
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June, 2007
Apple releases the 1st generation iPhone models at $499 for a 4GB and $599 for a 8GB model.
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January, 2009
Cloud computing takes off. Github.com launches. Developers feel the pain of fragmented environments.
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2012
Ecommerce sales top $1 trillion worldwide.
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February, 2010
"DevOps" becomes a household word. Drupal project transitions to git, developers cheer.
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2013
Apple says app store downloads top 40 billion, with 20 billion in 2012 alone.
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May, 2012
Pantheon changes the game for deploying in the cloud.
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The Future
Apple releases the iPhone 6 details TBD.
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TODAY
200 million websites are live on the internet. Pantheon launches Multidev Cloud development Environments.