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-Created by Charles Babbage
-it was called the Difference Engine
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First analog interactive electronic game called Missile Simulator created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann.
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-Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
-built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania
-Work began in 1943, funded by the Army Ordnance Department, which needed a way to compute ballistics during World War II. The machine wasn't completed until 1945, but then it was used extensively for calculations during the design of the hydrogen bomb
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-Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1963 in his research lab at Stanford
-They christened the device the mouse as early models had a cord attached to the rear part of the device looking like a tail and generally resembling the common mouse -
-Ray Tomlinson created it
-Email is short for Electronic Mail -
-first dvd was made by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic
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-High Definition
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-LoveFilm is a UK-based provider of home video and video game rental through DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand
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-Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University
-Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. -
-YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal
-On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion
-On March 21, 2013, the number of unique users visiting YouTube every month reached 1 billion
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The world’s largest Plasma TV is a 150 inch Plasma TV made by Panasonic, standing 6 ft high and 11 ft wide.
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-More than 245 European television channels were launched in the course of 2009 such as sport channels and channels for children
-At the end of 2009 one can estimate that there are more than 730 channels being broadcast over television -
The world’s first 3D LED HDTV released by Samsung. Announced in February, 2010.
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After a six year construction period, the Kingdom Tower opens in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.* Standing at over 1,000m (3,280 ft) high, this takes the title of world's tallest building from the previous record holder - Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 828m (2,717 ft).
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a whole lot of brains in a tiny, tiny package.
predicted that processor speeds would double every two years, while at the same time, the technology needed to do that would shrink, driving down the cost of computing as well -
Recent advances in tissue engineering have made it possible to "grow" synthetic meat using single animal cells
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Although yet to become mainstream, bionic eye implants are now available that not only restore sight, but actually exceed human vision. This breakthrough has been made possible due to exponential advances in sensor technology, computing and neuroscience.
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Instead of choosing a floor when getting on an elevator, imagine choosing a planet. Many futurists support the development of a Space Elevator for transporting people from the Earth to the Moon and to Mars.