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  • Calculator Invented

    Calculator Invented
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    The first ever calculator was invented, which influenced the computer heavily. The first ever computers were made for calculations and coding.
  • The Start Of Computers

    The Start Of Computers
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    The Colossus was the first ever fully functionable computer. It was created in Great Britain.
  • The Programma 101

    The Programma 101
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    This was the first ever desktop computer ever made. Invented by Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto.
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
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    Arpanet is the network that was the basis of internet. n the 1980s, ARPANET was handed over to a separate new military network, the Defense Data Network
  • First Ever Game Console

    First Ever Game Console
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    This was called the Magnavox Odyssey. Was the first ever console to be able to play games on.
  • Osborne 1

    Osborne 1
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    Created by Adam Osborne, it was the first ever portable computer. Came out about only 30 years ago.
  • Tron

    Tron
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    Tron was a revolutionary film for the time. Tron was one of the first to introduce cgi effects into filmmaking
  • Lisa

    Lisa
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    Lisa the computer was one of the first couple of computers Apple released. First computer with a graphic interface.
  • Python

    Python
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    Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC programming language capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.
  • Bluetooth

    Bluetooth
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    Created in Sweden. It helps connect things together without needed cables.
  • Java

    Java
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    Created by James Gosling. It is a programming language to help code.
  • First Apple Ipod

    First Apple Ipod
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    The first ever Ipod apple came out. Created by Steve Jobs, at the time this was beyond revolutionary.
  • PHP

    PHP
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    Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994,the PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. While PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page,it now stands for the recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
  • C++

    C++
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    Is a computer programming language. Was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup.
  • C#

    C#
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    C# is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 6.0 which was released in 2015.