Jack Kilby was the inventor of the computer chip. Without the chip, man could not explore space or fly to the moon.

The chip helps the deaf to hear and is the heartbeat of a myriad of medical diagnostic machines.

The chip has also touched education, transportation, manufacturing and entertainment.

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackbuilt.shtml

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Founded by: Pierre Omidyer on September 3, 1995

Allows customers to buy and sell New and Used goods from all around the world

Accessible from computer, phone, ipad, tablet etc.

The "buy now" feature allows customers to purchase items on the spot.

Their profit comes from charging a 10% fee on every sold item.

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~magnus/ief248a/eBay/history.html

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Bill Gates founded Microsoft in the year 1975, it is now worth $290 billion.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/history#T1=era0

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Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices. Simply put, they wanted a computer that was user-friendly. Jobs and Wozniak started out building the Apple I in Jobs' garage and sold them without a monitor, keyboard, or casing (which they decided to add on in 1977).

http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html

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In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most start-ups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision—a computer on every desktop and in every home. During the next years, Microsoft begins to change the ways we work.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/history#T1=era0

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.

https://www.facebook.com/realsteelmechanical/posts/361588717325954

Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone had big plans for Twitter but they likely had no idea how popular it would truly become. When they first created the site, they were just looking for a way to send text messages on their cell phones and a way to reinvent a somewhat dying company.

http://www.socialnomics.net/2013/01/23/the-history-of-twitter/

The first computer game invented was Tennis For Two. It was developed in 1958 on a Donner Model 30.

http://www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php

NBA 2k15 is partnered with Sprint. They name the halftime report after them.

Spaceship Earth is a unique ride at Disney World that explores the Past-Present-and Future of technology.

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/epcot/spaceship-earth/

The first computer weighed around 27 tons.

http://www.ushistory.org/oddities/eniac.htm

It is estimated that the sales of Kindle devices stood at roughly 20 million in 2013, bringing about $3.9 billion in revenues.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/04/02/estimating-kindle-e-book-sales-for-amazon/