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Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a automatic loom that uses punched wooden cards to weave fabric designs.
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Charles Babbage creates a steam driven calculating machine resulting in a failure
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Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census.
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Alan Turing present the notion of a universal machine.
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J.V. Atanasoff attempts to build the first computer without gears, belts, or shafts.
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Atanasoff and a graduate student designs a computer that can solve 29 equations at 1 time.
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2 university professors build ENIAC
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Mauchly and Presper are funded to create the first commercial computers
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William Shockley, John Bardeen, and WalterBrattain create the first transistor.
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Grace Hopper develops the first computer language.
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Forton programming language is born.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit.
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Douglas Engelbartshows prototype of first computer with a mouse and GUI.
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Bell Labs creates the UNIX operating system.
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Intel creates the first DRAM
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IBM engineers create the floppy disk.
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Robert Meltcalfe creates the ethernet cable.
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Personal computers hit the market.
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Microsoft is created.
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Apple is created and invents the Apple 1.
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TRS-80 sold crazily and Apple 2 shown off at the first computer fair.
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Visicalc is created.
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Wordstar is created.
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First IBM personal computer code: Acorn
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Apple's Lisa has first personal computer GUI.
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Microsoft announces windows, Commodore unveils Amiga 1000, and first dot-com domain is registered.
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Compaq brings deskpro 386 to market and 32 bit computers bring speed comparable to mainframes.
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Tim Berners- Lee develops HTML.
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Pentium Microprocessors advances graphics and music on pc's.
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PC's become used for gaming.
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Sergey Brin and Larry Pagedevelop google.
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Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple which was struggling.
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The term wifi becomes part of the computing language.
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Apple unveils Mac os X.
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First 64 bit processor developed by AMD.
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Firefox challenges internet explorer to dominant browser and facebook launches.
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Youtube is founded and google aquires android.
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Apple introduces the Mac book pro.
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The Iphone is released.
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Microsoft launches windows 7.
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Apple unveils the Ipad.
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Google releases the Chrome book.
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Facebook gains 1 billion users.
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Apple releases the apple watch and Microsoft releases windows 10.
