Computers

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Jan 1, 1801

France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards

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Jan 1, 1822

English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam driven calculating machine that would be able to computer tables of numbers

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Jan 1, 1936

Alan Turing presents the notion of a univeral machine,later called the Turning machine, capable of computing anything that is computable.

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Jan 1, 1941

J.V. Atanasoff design a computer that can solve 29 equations first time computer is able to store information on its main memory.

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Jan 1, 1973

Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for commections multiple computers and other hardware.

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Jan 1, 1999

The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires

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Jan 1, 2000

Microsoft release Windows Millennium Edition or Me and Windows 2000