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Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded HP in a garage in Palo Alto, California. -
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Eckert-Mauchly
Eckert-Mauchly computer corp. is founded and constructs machines based on their experience with ENIAC and EDVAC. -
Nixdorf Computer corp.
Heinz Nixdorf founded the Nixdorf Computer Corp. It remains an independent company in Germany until the company joined Siemens in 1990. -
Electrodata
The calculator company Burroughs buys Electrodata. Combined, it creates a giant calculating firm. -
Xerox
Xerox opens Palo Alto Research Centre. This research centre attracted many of the US’s top computer Scientists-This lead to some ground-breaking inventions that changed the computer world. -
Xerox
Xerox closes its computer division. Most of it is sold to Honeywell. -
Broderbund
Broderbund is founded by brothers Doug and Gary Carlston. Doug created games for the company. One of their first games was Galactic Revolution. -
Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines is founded. The founder Danny Hills and his friends wanted a super computer. -
Netscape
Netscape Communications is founded. The company delivered its first browser in October of 1994. -
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Is founded by Stanford graduates Jerry Yang and David Filo. Little did they know that their website would become one of the most popular search engines in history.