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Charles Babbage developed the difference machine. This machine could compute multiple several sets of numbers and make hard copies of the results.
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The first public radio performance was broadcast on January 13, 1910, from the Metropolitan Opera House. The signal was broadcast with a five hundred watt transmitter, and was heard as far away as Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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The first television was pioneered by Peter Goldmark called the LCD TV. LCD meaning Liquid crystal Display.
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Alan Turing proposed the Turing Machine. This machine was a device that printed symbols on paper tape in a manner that emulated a person following a series of logical instructions
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The Z1 was developed by Konrad Zuse, a German, in his parents living room and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable computer, and the first really functional modern computer.
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Atanasoff-Berry Computer or ABC was developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937. Its development continued until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). With over 300 vacuum tubes for digital computation including binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU.
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English physicists John Randall and Harry Boot develop a compact magnetron for use in airplane radar navigation systems.
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Colossus, developed by Tommy Flowers, was created in December of 1943 to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages.
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor, which allows electronic equipment to made much smaller and leads to the modern computer revolution.
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IBM and General Motors develop Design Augmented by Computers-1 (DAC-1), the first computer-aided design (CAD) system.
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Douglas Engelbart develops the computer mouse.
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In 1972, HBO became the first pay cable network. It was the first to use a newly approved satellite-based distribution system, distributing its signal to cable operators nationwide.
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The first ever UPC scanner was installed at one checkout station in a Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, in June of 1974.In 1972, a Kroger in Cincinnati experimented with a “bulls-eye” style code—but at the time, a committee was being formed within the grocery industry to produce a standard. IBM’s proposal, for what would become known as the UPC or Uniform Product Code, won out.
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The first commercially available home computer called the Xerox Alto, with anything resembling a familiar GUI (a graphical user interface), with windows, folders, and a mouse was the Apple Macintosh in 1984, which was famously adapted by Microsoft for its Windows OS.
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The World Wide Web is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. So reads the text at the top of the first website ever to be published, by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, on August 6, 1991.The page was created on a NeXT workstation at CERN labs in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Pierre Omidyar launches the eBay auction website.
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Bram Cohen develops BitTorrent file-sharing.
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iRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot.
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A pioneering low-cost laptop for developing countries called OLPC is announced by MIT computing pioneer Nicholas Negroponte.
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Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader.
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Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone.
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Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
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3D TV's become more widely available
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Elon Musk announces "hyperloop"—a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.
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Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.