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First keyboards
The teletype machine, introduced in the 1930s, combined the technology of the typewriter (used as an input and a printing device) with the telegraph. Elsewhere, punched card systems were combined with typewriters to create what was called keypunches. Keypunches were the basis of early adding machines and IBM was selling over one million dollars worth of adding machines in 1931.
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ENIAC was first invented
Cost about 500,000 to make. Invented in the University of Pennsylvania -
First computer Game
In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interraction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a EDSAC vaccuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.
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First hard drives
Hard disk drives were introduced in 1956 as data storage for an IBM real-time transaction processing computer and were developed for use with general purpose mainframe and minicomputers. The first IBM drive, the 350 RAMAC, was approximately the size of two refrigerators and stored 5 million 6-bit characters (the equivalent of 3.75 million 8-bit bytes) on a stack of 50 discs.
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First video game
Tennis for Two was the first videogame ever invaded and made -
The ARPANET
It was the world's first operational packet switching network and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet. -
First processr
The Intel 4004 is generally regarded as the first commercially available microprocessor. and cost $60. The first known advertisement for the 4004 is dated November 15, 1971 and appeared in Electronic News
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First word prosessing software
ord processor may also refer to a type of stand-alone office machine, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an electric typewriter with a dedicated processor (like a computer processor) for the editing of text. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor -
First Email
Electronic mail, also known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. -
First laptop
Manny Fernandez had the idea for a well-designed laptop for executives who were starting to use computer. Fernandez, who started Gavilan Computer, promoted his machines as the first "laptop" computers in May 1983. Many historians consider the Gavilan as the first fully functional laptop computer. -
First Mac
The Macintosh 128K, released as the "Apple Macintosh", is the original Apple Macintosh personal computer. Its beige case contained a 9 in (23 cm) monitor and came with a keyboard and mouse. A handle in the top of the case made it easier for the computer to be lifted and carried. -
First cell Phone "the brick"
The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/first-cell-phone-true-brick/#.UFhtMqRYvB8 -
First webcam
The first commercial webcam, the black-and-white QuickCam, entered the marketplace in 1994, created by the U.S. computer company Connectix (which sold its product line to Logitech in 1998). QuickCam was available in August 1994 for the Apple Macintosh.
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First Smartphone
The first Symbian phone the touchscreen Ericsson R380 Smartphone was released in 2000 and was the first device to be marketed as a 'smartphone'. It combined a PDA with a mobile phone -
First ipod
The first ipod was quite revolutanary for its time and was a big seller.
http://www.ask.com/answers/63953601/what-year-was-the-first-ipod-invented
