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Hewlett Packard (HP) was found by William Hewlett and David Packard. The name was decided on the flip of a coin toss.
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John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert devloped the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The US Army needed this computer to calculate artillery-firing tables.
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Eckert and Mauchly also invented the UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) and it was first delivered to the US Census Bureau in 1951.
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IBM creates the first floppy disk in 1967. A floppy disk was used to read and write data from the computer to the disk. It was flexibe and had a magnetic coating on the outside.
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Intel, with the help of Ted Hoff, introduces the first microprocessor. The Intel 4004 had 2,300 transistors, 60,000 OPS, and costs $200.00
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The first version of Microsoft Windows was released in 1985. It was not a complete operating system but called an "operating environment.
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Microsoft releases the first web browser called Internet Explorer Version 1. It was included with Windows 95 and then later on the browser was no longer support.
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Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales on Jan 15, 2001. This was an encyclopedia that was free.
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Intel began producing the Intel Core Processor Series on desktop and laptop computers.
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Microsft releases Internet Explorer 9 in the Spring of 2011. It can only be used for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
