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Hewlett-Packard is founded
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During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews
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The Williams tube won the race for a practical random-access memory
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The IBM 726 was one of the first practical high-speed magnetic tape systems for electronic digital computers
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First electronic computer that was shipped was the 701 during 3 years of production
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the first commercial modem, specifically for converting digital computer data
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Maximum capacity was 28 million characters and the disks rotated at 1,800 R.P.M
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Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman sent the first e-mail
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the first successful mouse-driven computer with a graphic user interface
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Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language