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The first freely programmable computer came into play, invented by Charles Babbage.
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The transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself'but it was a vital computer component.
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International Business Machines came out with their first computer machine.
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The first bank computers were invented. They used MICR'or magnetic ink character recognition'to read checks.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit'better known as the computer chip.
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Spacewar games invented the first computer video games.
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The first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.
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IBM and Apple were just a couple of the brands that put out the first personal computers.
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Bill Gates worked with Paul Allen to develop BASIC for the Altair 8800.
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Microsoft made a program that was compatible with IBM computers. This let more people come into contact with the now well-known program.
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Tim Berners Less came up with the World Wide Web. He started a computer revolution.
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The first laptop computer'the Power Book 100'came out. There were other portable computers before this'but they were very clunky and expensive.
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the first internet convention was held.
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Amazon released the Kindle, one of the first electronic reading systems to gain a large following among consumers.
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Apple releases the MacBook Air, the first ultra notebook that was a thin and lightweight laptop with a high-capacity battery. To get it to be a smaller size, Apple replaced the traditional hard drive with a solid-state disk, making it the first mass-marketed computer to do so.
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Google releases the Chromebook, a laptop that runs on Google Chrome OS.
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the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-sized single-board computer is released, weighing only 45 grams.
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The first reprogrammable quantum computer is created.