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The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
The first electronic computer was very important because there are so many people that use computers today. Take our school for an example. Every teacher, student, and faculty member has 1 computer, 2 computers, maybe even 3. Without the first electric computers it would be to expensive to let everyone have one. -
Word processor: IBM introduces the first word processor
This is important because this is the first time that people can type a document and save it. This is still here today which means that it is really important. -
E-mail: E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson
This was the first time that people could communicate with each other on the computer! It was fast, easy, and perfect -
Portable computers: Altair produces the first portable computer
This was important because portable computers were the start to something that no one could have ever imagined. Instead of this huge, chunky computer, there was a small, reasonable sized laptop. Something that could people only dreamed about turned into reality. -
Apple: Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
This, by far, is very important because without Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founding apple who knows if there would ever be anything like the iphone 4S today. -
Nintendo: The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
The Nintendo is big because it was the first real game box that worked well. It is important because many people today make huge profits off of games and Nintendo started it and is still making profits today. -
The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee: Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet
The start of the World Wide Web is huge. Google came from the WWW and ask.com and every other internet sight ever. The WWW was the biggest creation out of all the inventions. -
Apple releases the iMac
This is one of the biggest inventions of all because the iMac is the most well known computer today. This is so important because they still mac iMac just bigger and better then back in 1998. However, the first one is always the most important one. -
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
The founding of google is remarkable because with google today we do everything from looking for help with school work to looking at movie stars. People become known from google and google is one of the best things that has happened to the internet. -
Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold
This is a huge milestone in the road. For their to be 1 billion PC's sold is gigantic because there aren't even that many people in America. This means that thousands of other countries had computers as well and that means that the PC was expanding to other areas and gaining more and more people.
