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invented by Charles Babbage and called the Analytical Engine
it is the first automatic computing machine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. -
in 1922 the General Post Office had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests and moved to rescind its ban in the wake of a petition by 63 wireless societies with over 3000 members. the GPO proposed that it would issue a single broadcasting licence to a company jointly owned by a consortium of leading wireless receiver manufactures, to be known as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist,
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it was made in Machester university by Dick Grimsdale
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invented by Douglas Engelbart
The first computer mouse was carved from a block of wood and used two wheels to track its motion. -
this is when the internet was fisrt released to the public
it was invented by lots of people in lots of places but the idea came from Leonard Kleinrock -
The first email was sent in 1972 using two machines by an engineer named Ray Tomlinsin
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The original Apple Computer 1, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, was released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW Microbus, and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500. It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Ho
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The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 23.6 pounds (10.7 kg). It had no battery, a 5 in (13 cm) CRT screen, and dual 5.25 in (13.3 cm) single-density floppy drives.
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Although there are other earlier examples of computer games, most consider the first true computer game or digital game to be "Spacewar!". This game was programmed by Steve Russell and first released in February 1962. The game ran on the DEC PDP-1 computer, and consisted of two spaceships that maneuvered around a star that pulled at the ships with its gravity. The objective of the game was to avoid colliding with the star while trying to shoot the other ship with missiles.
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On 9 September 1985, the block of children's programs was rebranded as Children's BBC, and for the first time the children's block had dedicated idents
During the 1990s, Children's BBC began to be referred to informally on-air as 'CBBC'
he official billing name of Children's BBC remained in place, however, until the BBC's network-wide branding refresh of October 1997, when the official on-air branding changed to CBBC. -
Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, who previously had worked together at Pure Software. Hastings invested $2.5 million in startup cash for Netflix.
Netflix, Inc. is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of North America, Australia, New Zealand, South America and parts of Europe
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Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.
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Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University
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YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The inventors became millionaires when they sold their invention for 1.65 billion dollars to the search engine Google.
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Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twttr".Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title:
...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was. -
BBC Redux was developed as a proof of concept for a cross-platform, Flash Video-based streaming system.[2]:15 BBC iPlayer left beta and went live on 25 December 2007.[3] On 25 June 2008, a new-look iPlayer was launched, originally as a beta-test version alongside the earlier version. The site tagline was "Catch up on the last 7 days of BBC TV & Radio", reflecting that programmes were unavailable on iPlayer after this time (with some exceptions). The BBC state on their website that this is due
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the first man mission to mars
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the first 3D print organs for humans
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the world will run out of oil
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the world population reaches 9 million
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half of the the amazon rainforrst has be deforested by humans
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lots of plant and animal speicies will become extinct
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the rich can now "order" designer babies
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mars will have a functional human presence
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a fully synthetic human is feasible to porduce
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people will be mining resourses on the moon
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a pill will be able to slow down, or even stop the aging process
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Islam is the world dominant religion
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a n operational space elevator is working
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the ozone layer has fully recoverd from the damage
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polar bear numbers will be low, or non existant
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the whole world will have the same currency
