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French silk weaver Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom that weaved complex designs. Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.
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Ada had proposed was a program stored on punch cards for use on an early computer, The Analytical Engine.
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Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, forerunner of Computer Tabulating Recording Company (CTR). Later called IBM.
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John Backus invented the programming language FORTRAN
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the original BASIC was in vented by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College
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Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen and is the richest man alive!!
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Steve Wozniak is the computer whiz who created the Apple Computer company in 1976.
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Steve Jobs was a college dropout when he teamed up with Steve Wozniak in 1976 to form the Apple Computers company
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Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989.
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Jerry Yang is the co-founder of Yahoo!
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Mark Zuckerburg invented Facebook!!
