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Konrad Zuse intorduced the first freely programmable computer the Z1 Computer.
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John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly introduced the first commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. It was called the UNIVAC Computer.
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Steve Russell & MIT created the very first computer game called
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The first floppy disc invented by Alan Shugart &IBM.
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Robert Metcalfe & Xerox started networking.
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IBM 5100 Computers are introduced, they are the first consumer computers.
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Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby introduce the
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The computer considered by most historians to be the first true portable computer was the Osborne 1. Adam Osborne, an ex-book publisher founded Osborne Computer and produced the Osborne 1 in 1981, a portable computer that weighed 24 pounds and cost $1795. The Osborne 1 came with a five-inch screen, modem port, two 5 1/4 floppy drives, a large collection of bundled software programs, and a battery pack. The short-lived computer company was never successful.
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Apple introduce the more affordable home computer with a GUI (graphical user interface).The Apple Macintosh Computer
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Microsoft introduces Windows and Microsofts war with Apple begins
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Apple launches the Iphone which in turn kickstarts a wave of smartphones. Today people do alot more with their mobile phones than just make phonecalls.
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Google begin developing Google Glass, a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display. Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format,that can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands.
