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John Napier invented the logarithms
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Blaise Pascal created the first calculator
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Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz 30 years later invented a machine that could also multiply
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard used punch cards to create loom
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Lady Augusta Ada was the Worlds first programmer and helped Babbage.
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Charles Babbage created the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century, but it never got built, but was 30 years later.
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Bletchley Park was where code breakers broke enemy codes and messages and Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing met their.
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Tommy Flowers made the first electrical computer called the Colossus.
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Howard Aiken in 1944 built the ASCC computer and the first mechanical relay.
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Alan Turing made the first stored program.
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Jack Kilby invented the first integrated circuit in 1959, which meant computers became smaller and more reliable. These were used in the first calculators.
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Dr. Grace Murray Hopper invented “COBAL” language and she named the term bug for when computers go wrong.
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The very first email is sent.
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Bill Gates at the age of 13 became interested in programming. He dropped out of Harvard so he could concentrate in making his programs. He talked IBM into letting Microsoft make the operating system and Gates made a fortune from MS-DOS. Over the next few years he made billions of dollars and donated a lot of it to the lives of people in developing countries.
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Steve Jobs also dropped out of university and at 21 he made Apple. In 1976 he created the Apple I and they were sold for $600. In 2000 he released the IPad and from then he made millions of pounds. In 2001 Apple was valued at $346.7 billion and Microsoft was valued at $200=+ billion.
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Apple makes the Macintosh.
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Microsft introduces Windows 3.0.
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Microsft introduces Window 3.1
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Larry Page & Sergey Brin made Backrub, now known as Google and now a days they own YouTube.
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Bill Gates is no longer head of Microsoft and Windows 2000 comes along.
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The biggest site for infomation in the World is invented.
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In April 2007 GOOG-411 is released, enabling people to dial a phone number and speak a search for local information.
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In September 2008, T-Moblile announces the G-1, the first phone that operated on Android.
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The most popular tablet is released.
