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Alan Turing comes up with the idea of a "computing machine".
I chose this because Turing went on to create the Turing Test and many other computer discoveries. He is regarded as the father of the computer. -
William Hewlett and David Packard create HP computers.
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Alan Turing develops the Colosuss, a code breaking machine that helped intelligence agencies across Britain. I chose this because it is one of the first computers used to help the government break codes, and as a result, codes got harder to solve, and more computers created to combat them.
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A glitch was first referred to as a bug by grace hopper.
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Alan Turing publishes his paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence. This influences the creation of the turing test
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The IBM 701 becomes available, and 19 are sold.
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The first computer game, Spacewar Computer Game, is created at MIT
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IBM creates the first floppy disk.
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Intel releases the first RAM in the intel 4004
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The first e-mail service is created by Ray Tomlinson
