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The first computer ever invented, the ENIAC, was made by Dr. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert in 1943 and finished construction in 1946. It took up around 1,800 square feet and weighed almost 50 tons! It costed around $500,000, which is around $6.6 million dollars today.
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The first commercial computer invented was made by Dr. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, the the inventors of the first computer, the ENIAC.
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Steve Russell released the game Space War, the first game for computer use. He used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to make the game.
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The computer mouse is patented by Douglas Engelbart. It was dubbed "Mouse," because the cord that hooked it up to the computer looked kind of like a mouse tail. The name stuck, and it is still called a mouse today.
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The Nintendo NES is invented.
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The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Google, Inc. is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 2006, the verb "Google it" is added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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The iPad is invented by Apple, founded by Steve Jobs.
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