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The abacus was created by the Chinese. It kept track of numbers by sliding beads across strings.
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They were created by John Napier. Its main purpose was to help people perform multiplication tasks.
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The slide rule is a manual device used for calculation. It looked like a ruler with a movable middle piece.
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Blaise Pascal created the first mechanical adding machine.
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Joseph Jaquard used cards with holes punched into them to guide weaving machines alowing intricate patterns to be created.
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Developed by Charles Baggage. It used cards with holes to operate its gears.
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Charles Babbages second steam powered engine. Lady Ada Byron Lovelace is considered to be the worlds first computer programmer because she wrote a language for the machine.
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Herman Hollerith used hole punched cards to operate a machine with electrical impulses. It was used to tabulate United Satates census information.
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Konrad Zuse created the first freely programmable computer.
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Collossus was a vacuum tube computing computer which broke Hitlers codes during World War II.
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Worlds First electronic large scale general purpose computer
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Vacuum tubes were created.
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This was the first computer that was commercial and able to pick presidential winners.
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FORTRAN Computer Programming Language became the first successful programming language.
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The transistor replaced the vacuum tube due to its reduced weight, cost, and its reliability.
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The first computer game is made.
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The computer mouse was made by Douglas Engelbart. Windows also came out this year.
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The internet, originally called ARPAnet, began as a military computer network.
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The floppy disk was created. It is called floppy because if its flexibility.
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs created the Apple. It was the first to have a mouse and a windows type graphical interface.
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The first home computer with graphical user interface.
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the networked hypertyext system called the World Wide Web.
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Large commercial Internet service providers begin to offer service.
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PDAs become available to consumers. They can play games, music, and download information from the web.
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The United States Air fource trained more drone pilots than regular pilots for the first time.
