Sony

Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita establish Sony on May 7, 1946. The company begins modestly as a maker of a rice boiler. The Sony name is derived as a mix of the Latin word sonus, the English word "sunny," and from the word "Sonny-boys" which is Japanese slang for "whiz kids."
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GIF

Online bulletin board company CompuServe introduces the Graphics Interchange Format in 1987. Developed by Terry Welch of Sperry Corporation in 1984, GIF format allows large images to be downloaded in a reasonable amount of time, even with very slow modems. With the advent of the Internet, GIF format becomes the most widely used image format on the web.
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"I Love You"

The "I Love You" computer virus is released in spring of 2000 and affects millions of computers. Users are infected via e-mail, Internet chat systems, and through shared file systems. The virus is a program attached to an e-mail with the subject line, "I LOVE YOU." The destructive virus overwrites several types of files, including .gif and .jpg files, modifies the Internet Explorer start page, and changes registry keys.
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BASIC

The BASIC programming language runs for the first time on a General Electric 225 mainframe computer at Dartmouth College in spring of 1964. BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the language. It is intended to be a stepping-stone for students to learn one of the more powerful languages such as FORTRAN and ALGOL.
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EDSAC

Maurice Wilkes and his team at Cambridge University complete the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC) in May 1949. EDSAC is the first full-scale operational stored-program computer. The clock speed is 500 kHz and most instructions take about 1,500 milliseconds to execute.
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Steve Jobs

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is demoted by Apple's board of directors and resigns in May 1985. This event climaxes an internal power struggle between Jobs and CEO John Sculley. Ironically, Sculley joined the company in 1983 at Jobs' urging. Sculley remains the CEO until 1993. In 1997, Steve Jobs is back as Apple CEO, after the board of directors lose confidence in CEO Gil Amelio.
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Crazy Frog Axel F

The mobile phone ring tone "Crazy Frog Axel F" tops Britain's singles music charts in May 2005. Jamster's ring tone song, inspired by the 1980s movie theme from "Beverly Hills Cop," is the first song created specifically for mobile phones to crossover onto the mainstream pop music charts. The ring tone single registers 150,000 downloads in just one week.
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