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COMPUTER HISTORY
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First type writer
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it. -
Harvard Mark-1 completed
Harvard Mark-1 is completed. Conceived by Harvard professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark-1 was a giant, reliable calculator. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft that synchronized the machine’s thousands of component parts. The Mark-1 was used to produce mathematical tables but was superseded by stored program computers. -
Eniac
ENIAC was the first computer -
Arpanet
Arpanet was a demo version of the internet invented at 1969. while the internet started in the 1990's. The Arpanet was invented by Americans Leonard Kleinrock and Paul Baran, British scientist Donald Davies and Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory. -
Apple
Apple company was founded