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Charles Babbage started to develop the Difference Engine in 1822. It was considered to be the first automatic machine that could compute many sets of numbers and make hard copies of their results.
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In 1936, Konrad Zuse created the first freely programmable computer. It was called the Z1 computer, and it was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator.
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The Complex Number Calculator was completed by Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1939 and designed by George Stibitz. In 1940, he demonstrated it at Dartmouth College at an American Mathematical Society conference.
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The Electronic Controls Company was founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the people who helped make the ENIAC computer. Later, it was renamed to Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, or EMCC.
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In 1954, John Backus assembled a team to make Fortran. Fortran was the first high-level programming language to be used broadly.
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The PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer. It was built by Digital Equipment Corp., and was sold for $18,000.
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Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. The name Microsoft is a portmanteau of microcomputer and software.
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The first laptop computer may have been the Grid Compass, designed by William Moggridge in 1979. On the space-shuttle mission in the early 1980's, it was used by NASA.
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The HP-150 was the first touchscreen computer, and was invented by Hewlett-Packard. It was based on the Intel 8088 and had a 9" screen.
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World Wide Web is what the www in www.google.com stands for. Tim Berners Lee is considered as the person who invented the Web.
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A lot of devices have biometric ways of security rather than passwords, and seem to be getting more popular. This could include thumbprints, and scanning someone's eye.
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Intel, the giant computer-chip maker, bought Xircom Inc., and said it would pay $748 million. Intel is #8 in the World's most valuable brands.
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The 2011 BMW 7 series has night vision technology and can detect pedestrians. It can also distinguish a pedestrian from an animal that could jump onto the road.
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The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was made by John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly. It was the first electronic general-purpose computer had 17,468 vacuum tubes.
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iOS 8 is be the 8th release of the iOS operating system. It will have a lot of new features, like more options for editing photos.
