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ENIAC was the first electronic general computer. It was complete, digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming.
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Alexander Douglas invented one of the earliest computer games, a version of Tic-Tac-Toe known in Britain as Naughts and Crosses, called OXO.
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Doug Ross of MIT, connected to an MIT computer could function as a keyboard input device due to its low cost and flexibility. An experiment conducted five months later on the MIT Whirlwind computer confirmed how useful and convenient a keyboard input device could be.
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Bank of America had ERMA machine that would process checks faster than any well trained banker would work days just by one hour of use.
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The calculator could perform multiple functions and had a small, integrated CRT display. However, the immature MOS manufacturing process made the parts unreliable, limiting sales
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Nolan Bushnell hires young engineer Al Alcorn to design a car-driving game, but when it becomes apparent that this is too ambitious for the time, he has Alcorn design a version of Ping Pong instead.
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The Apple-II finds popularity beyond the hobby community which made up Apple’s user community until then. When connected to a color television set, the Apple II produced brilliant color graphics for the time.
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A networked hypertext system used for project management but with far greater ambitions. It seeks to categorize hyperlinks in a way that can be read by computers as well as people.
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Able to hold 550 megabytes of pre-recorded data, CD-ROMs grow out of music Compact Disks CDs.
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The first IBM system to include Intel´s 80386 chip, the company ships more than 1 million units by the end of the first year.
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Based on the touchstone Delta computer Intel had built at caltech the Paragon is a parallel supercomputer that uses 2,048 (later increased to more than four thousand) Intel i860 processors.
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Java 1.0 is introduced by Sun Microsystems. The Java platform’s Write Once, Run Anywhere functionality let a program run on any system, offering users independence from traditional large software vendors like Microsoft or Apple.
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Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone, The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display
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Apple launches the iPhone - a combination of web browser, music player and cell phone - which could download new functionality in the form of apps from the online Apple store.
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Instagram, an image-sharing and social networking application, is purchased by Facebook for nearly $1 billion. It was initially launched in October 2010 by founders Kevin Sstrom and Mike Krieger and became an instant hit, with over 100 million active users by early 2013.
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Te Apple Watch was designed to be incorporated into the Apple environment with compatibility with iPhones and Mac Books. Almost a million units were ordered on the day of release.
