Joseph C. Wilson in 1906 founded Haloid Company in New York. The company became Xerox in 1961.
Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a partnership called Microsoft.
Yahoo begin life in a Stanford University campus trailer. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook" during his second year at Harvard University, Massachusetts.
YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It began as a venture-funded technology startup situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey who attended the Missouri University of Science and Technology and subsequently at New York University, where he first came up with the idea for Twitter.
Amazon started as an online bookstore by Jeff Bezos in July 1994 in Seattle, Washington.
eBay was founded in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995 by French-born computer programmer Pierre Omidyar. It was meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals.
Adobe Systems Inc begin in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who
formed the company after leaving Xerox. The pdf format hit the market
in 1993.