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The computer got its beginning in the 19th century. Charles Babbage a mathematics professor designed the analytical engine. Which is the basic framework for todays computer
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Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine later called the turing machine, capable of computing anything that was computable.
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The first electronic digital computer was built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).
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In 1943 an electronic computer named the colossus was built for the military. It was built for britain's military in Bletchley Park
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The first general purpose computer was the giant ENIAC. Which was created by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania. Used a word of 10 decimal digits instead of binary.
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In 1951 the first computer for commercial use was introduced to the public. The (UNIVAC 1) which stands for Universal Automatic Computer.
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In 1953 the International Business Machine (IBM) 650 and 700 series made their mark. During this generation of computers over 100 computer programming languages were developed.
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Microsoft Disk operating system was created in 1980.
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IBM introduces the personal Computer (PC) in 1981 for home and office use. Computer became smaller.
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In 1984 Apple created the Macintosh computer. It had an icon driven interface.
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In the 1990's the windows operating system was created for computers. It is still used in computer today.
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Google was created in 1998 by Larry page and Sergey Brin. Google is a massive search engine.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet with out wires
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Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking. Microsoft rolls out Windows XP, which has a significantly redesigned GUI
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Wireless headsets were created in 2002. Since phones were wireless people thought why not the head phones that went with them.
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The first 64-bit processor, AMD's Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market
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Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which is the dominant web browser. Facebook is launched
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Youtube is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system
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Apple introduces the Macbook Pro, its first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. Nintendo's Wii game console hits the market
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In 2007 the iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone
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Microsoft launches windows 7, which offers the ability to pin applications to the taskbar and advances in touch and handwriting recognition.
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Apple unveil the iPad , changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segment.
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Google releases the Chromebook, a laptop that runs the google Chrome OS.
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In 2012 Facebook gained its 1 billionth uses on October 4th.
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Apple releases the apple watch and Microsoft releases windows 10.
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