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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine. The Difference Engine is a calculator. It prepares numerical tables using a mathematical technique known as the method of difference. Today such tables — the kind often used in navigation and astronomy — would be computed and stored electronically. Nearly a century and a half ago, the Difference Engine did much the same work, but slowly and mechanically. -
Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer.
Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape . First freely programmable computer. -
The Harvard-MARK III
Howard Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III -
The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced
Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments to prove that resistors and capacitors could exist on the same piece of semiconductor material. His circuit consisted of a sliver of germanium with five components linked by wires. -
COBOL
The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented. -
Steve Russell & MITSpacewar
The first computer game invented. -
ARPAnet
The original Internet -
NES
The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut. -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991 -
Xbox
Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
