On Oct. 29, 1969, a UCLA computer science professor and a graduate student sent the first digital transmission from their computer to another one at the Stanford Research Institute. The internet also launched the tech boom (and 2000 bust, and later resurrection) that has spawned the first trillion-dollar U.S. public companies in Apple (AAPL) Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) It has led to the social media conundrum where people are more “connected” than ever, at least digitally — but also more exposed, through networks like Facebook (FB) Twitter (TWTR) and Snapchat (SNAP) Companies like Google (GOOG) have become a verb. Read More...
On Oct. 29, 1969, a UCLA computer science professor and a graduate student sent the first digital transmission from their computer to another one at the Stanford Research Institute. The internet also launched the tech boom (and 2000 bust, and later resurrection) that has spawned the first trillion-dollar U.S. public companies in Apple (AAPL) Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) It has led to the social media conundrum where people are more “connected” than ever, at least digitally — but also more exposed, through networks like Facebook (FB) Twitter (TWTR) and Snapchat (SNAP) Companies like Google (GOOG) have become a verb.
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