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The Analytical Engine, considered as the first computer was designed by Charles Babbage.
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Ada Lovelace took interest in the analytical engine, and when asked to translate his work to an italian engineer, she also anexed her own notes in how to program the engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, this is considered the first computer program and the first algorithm ever written
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George Boole publishes his boolean algebra, which is used for programming to date.
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“On computable numbers,” often considered the founding document of computer science; the paper gives an explicit construction of a universal Turing machine.
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Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer was set operational at Blecthey Park
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At Bell Labs, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor
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Grace Murray Hopper creates A-O, considered the first compiler
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Reynold Johnson at IBM introduces the hard drive
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A team led by John Backus at IBM delivers a compiler FORTRAN, the first high level progamming language
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A team led by MIT student Steve Russell creates Spacewar!, the first computer game
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Texas instruments invent the first electronic calculator
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IBM launches the first floppy disc
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Ray Tomlinson sends the first email message on ARPANET
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IBM PC released using Microsoft's MS-DOS
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Sony and Phillip launch the compact disk commercially
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Bjarne Stroustroup invented the most dominating object oriented programming language at Bell Labs
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Macintosh releases the first personal computer with mouse/windows interface
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Microsoft launches its first version of windows
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Napster is launched with its revolutionizing peer-to-peer technology and its brand new MP3 format
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Facebook launched by Mark Zuckerburg
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youtube is launched revolutionising media sharing
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Making essential use of Facebook and Twitter as organizing tools, protesters in Egypt force the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of rule
