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Herman Hollerith builds a punch card system to determine the 1880 census, doing it in just 3 days. Government saves about an extra $5 million. He establishes his company, conclusively will be IBM.
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Pennsylvania professors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, build the ENIAC (Electronic Integrator and Calculator) It filled a 20ft. by 40ft. room with 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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Mauchly and Presper leave their University to go build the UNIVAC. It was the first commercial computer to for business and goverenment apps.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple computers on April 1. It was the first computer to have single-circiut board.
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First IBM personal computer called Acorn comes out. It has an INtel chip, 2 floppy disks, with an optional color monitor.
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Apple's Lisa is the first personal computer with GUI. It had a drop-down menu and icons.
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On March 15, the first dot-com was registered. It was years beofre the World Wide Web became the beginning of Internet history. More than a 2 years later, there were 100 dot-coms registered.
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Tim Berners-Lee who was a researcher at CERN, in Geneva, made HTML ( HyperText Markup Language). This was giving rise to the World Wide Web.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computer language. People or users were able to now connect to Internet without wires.
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Apple comes out with Mac OS X. It is a operating system that prvides protected memory architecture and other benefits.
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Apple introduces the MacBook Pro, Apple's first Intel-based and dual-core moblie computer, with the iMac with an Intel-based.
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The Chromebook is a laptop that runs on Google Chrom OS. With a long battery life, and have virus protection built-in, it is an easy to use laptop.
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OS X Yosemite is the newest upgrade to the Mac computer. It has many new improvments and makes using your Mac more efficient, like a new Split View.
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APple TV lets you experience TV in a new way. WIth a new operating system, called the 'tvOS', it has Siri in the remote and has apps in it. IT is the new way to watch TV.
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The Apple Pencil created by Tim Cook, was created to help with tasks on iPad Pro. Very responsive and has very good battery life. It offers a mixture of tools in one single Pencil.
