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Macintosh Ilfx was released. Two months later, Microsoft introduced Windows with similar technology
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Intel released its first version of the Pentium Processor.
Microsoft began to produce anti-virus software. -
Sony released its first version of Playstation
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Nintendo releases the Wii
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The first commercially successful electronic computer, UNIVAC, was also the first general purpose computer – designed to handle both numeric and textual information.
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FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), the first high-level programming language development, was started by John Backus and his team at IBM
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Integrated Circuit was invented at Texas Instrument
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First floppy disk was invented
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The first international connections to ARPANET are established. ARPANET later became the basis for what we now call the Internet.
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Development of Apple
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Compact Disk was invented
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Sony and Philips invented the CD-ROM
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World Wide Web was invented