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Charles Babbage first invented a steam driven calculating machine. More than a century later the worlds first computer was built
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Herman Hollerith invented a punch ccard system to calculate the 1880 census, by doing that he helped the government save $5 million.
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J.V. Atanasoff attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.
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Atanasoff Clifford Berry design a computer that can solve 29 equations, this marks the first computer to be invented.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of modern times computer with a mouse and a graphical user interface, this marks the evolution of the computer.-
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The newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip
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The first IBM computer, code named "Acorn," was first introduced. It uses Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system, an Intel chip, two floppy disks and an optional color monitor.
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Apple's Lisa was the first personal computer, this computer a drop down menu, it was also the first to be marketed as a "laptop."
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PCs became a gaming machine for common games like, Command & Conquer, Alone in the Dark 2, Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Descent and Little Big Adventure are among the games on the computer.
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Ending Apple's court case against Microsoft in which it alleges that Microsoft copied the “look and feel” of its operating system.
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The Mac OS X provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking, among other benefits.
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Firefox and Internet Explorer are the two dorminant web browser that are battling against each other
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Apple introdeces the MacBook Pro, the first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based IMac
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One year later, Apple invents the IPhone, a smartphone at functions like a computer.
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Microsoft luanches the Windows 7, which provides the ability to pin applications.
