Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form: the present or past simple, active or passive.
In August 1981 a meeting ___ (take place) in Miami which ___ (change) the lives of everyone everywhere forever. Just after 10.000 that morning a switch ___ (throw) on a white plastic box 50cm wide and 15cm high. At that moment, the first cheap, easy-to-use computer ___ (be born). IBM ___ (call) its new creation the Personal Computer, or PC for short. The people at IBM ___ (think) that only about 250,000 PCs would be necessary for the world's use but in the first five years three million PCs ___ (sell), and over the next 15 years 500 million more ___ (make). Today PCs ___ (use) in almost every office in the world as well as in millions at homes. Almost half of these ___ (connect) to the Internet, putting their users in touch with almost one billion people. Computers ___ (employ) for all sorts of purposes: communicating with business custmers, friends and family; research, shopping and entertainment. Computers have transformed our world, and people everywhere now ___ (depend) on them every day of their lives.