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Microsoft says hackers viewed source code, didn’t change it

Microsoft said Thursday in a blog post that hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies sneaked further into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn’t appear to have caused any additional harm
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How Instagram hit 1 billion users

More than one billion monthly users have uploaded 50 billion photos to Instagram – and chances are, you’re one of them. With Social Media Day coming up next week, let’s take a look at the history of the popular photo sharing and networking app and site.
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The history of the World Wide Web

On June 23, 1980 – 40 years ago tomorrow – English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, a physics lab in Switzerland, began working on a project he called ENQUIRE. This work would eventually evolve into hypertext, HTML and the World Wide Web.
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YouTube and seven internet icons, from their beginnings

On this date 15 years ago, the first video was uploaded to YouTube. A year later, the video-sharing platform would sell itself to Google for $1.65 billion, and today it brings in an estimated revenue of $15 billion a year. Here’s a look at the origins of YouTube and some other popular websites.