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Only three years later, the company released the first NeXT computer hardware which was relatively affordable. The computer was primarily designed for higher education and business applications. But NeXT computers never made it to commercial success. However, one particular user acquired the NeXT computer and changed the course of history. That man was Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web while operating the OS NeXTSTEP on a NeXT Computer at CERN. The NeXT Computer that Tim Berners-Lee used to build the WWW / Source In the meantime, Mac OS was getting old; Apple wanted to do something about it.And so, Apple decided that Steve Job’s NeXTSTEP’s foundation was what it was looking for. Ergo, in 1997, gaining Email List both the Man and the Machine. The man, Steve Jobs returned to one of the big five tech companies that he had co-founded in 1976. There he would fill in the role of consultant until he became the CEO in 2000. As for the machine, some of NeXTSTEP’s interface features were used in Mac OS X. In addition, NeXTSTEP’s processor-independent capabilities were retained in Mac OS X, leading to both PowerPC and Intel x86 versions. 3. Facebook (Meta) facebook logo Founded: February 4, 2004 Founders:
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M. Zuckerberg, E. Saverin, A. McCollum, D. Moskovitz Owner: Mark Zuckerberg Revenue: $116.61 billion (2022) Employees: 77,114 (March 2023) The #1 social media platform is not just a social media platform anymore. And it most certainly has come a long way. Facebook had initially launched under the name ‘FaceMash’. A little later however they changed the name to ‘TheFacebook’, only to realize that they probably won’t succeed as a rock band and dropped the ‘The’. In October 2021, the parent company of Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms, or just Meta, to reflect its focus on the upcoming metaverse.
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