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Hard Disk
"Hard drives, also known as hard disk drives (HDDs) were a technology thought up by IBM- and they dominated the market for nearly 30 years. They discovered a need for this type of technology in 1953, and the first hard drive was invented and then patented in 1956." -
The WWW was invented
"The software language that allowed for the creation of Web pages and the first browser was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955). Interestingly, the mathematician parents worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially sold computer." -
Microchip
'By inventing the integrated circuit (IC), now commonly called the microchip, Jack Kilby reduced the “tyranny of numbers” to one. Suddenly, engineers really could design a computer that could do anything. And they could build it small enough to fit in your pocket." -
LCD technology
"Because that's when the very first Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) was presented. George H. Heilmeier is credited as the man behind the science and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame as such." -
BASIC Programing language
"What it allowed the user to do was nothing short of revolutionary: previously, “computing” involved incredibly expensive mainframe machines—the kind that fills up rooms and has things that looks like film reels on a projector- as well as an extensive and aggravatingly slow system that involved punch-card production (which would contain the program), several trained operators as middle-men to handle the input and output of the process, and a sizable wait to receive results. "