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Z1
Designed and built by Konrad Zuse, many consider this the first computer. Though the exact date is not clear, it was completed in 1938 and was the first freely programmable computer in the world. Despite being unreliable in use, it had almost all the parts of a modern computer. Punched tape and punch tape reader served as the output and input devices. -
ENIAC
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) took the next step in computer history. With speeds a thousand times faster than other electromechanical machines of its times, the ENIAC was a giant leap in computing power and technology. Filling up 1800 square feet and having 17,468 vacuum tubes, this enormous machine was sponsored by the American military during World War II to calculate artillery-firing tables -
Transistor
Transistors took a major evolutionary step in the history of computers. They replaced the need for vacuum tubes, which saved an incredible amount of space and power, but still retained all the previous capabilities. The transistor was the first device designed to act as both a transmitter, converting sound waves into electronic waves, and a resistor, controlling electronic current. Thus, the name transistor is a combination of the words transmitter and resistor. -
Video Toaster
Introduced by NewTek in 1990
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WWW and HTTP
The most direct precursor to the modern version of the internet was developed by Tim Berners Lee, an English man who studied at Oxford. He is credited with creating HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), the language computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the internet; URL (universal resource locator), the addresses documents would have over the internet; and WWW (WorldWideWeb), the client to retrieve and view hypertext documents. -
Wi-Fi
The first form of Wi-Fi was developed to facilitate communication between cashier systems. Wi-Fi allowed systems to communicate wirelessly. Vic Hayes, known as the "father of the Wi-Fi is credited with developing the IEEE 802.11 standard, the method with which allows wireless system to communicate -
Linux
Designed by Finnish university studeny Linus Tlorvalds, Linux was released to several Usenet newsgroups on September 17th, 1991.
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iPhone
Although there were other similar devices already on the market for consumers, the iPhone effectively presented itself as more futuristic and user friendly. With a 3.5-inch multitouch screen display, the iPhone ran on Apple's iPhoneOS 3 and was a media player and essentially one of the first smartphones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(original) -
Julia Gets her first Laptop
For my birthday five years ago, I got my very first laptop. It was a Dell and only lasted a year because I did not take very good care of it. -
Julia Got Her First iPhone
I remember getting my first iPhone sometime in 2009, after my brother first got his. Today, my whole family has iPhones. Back then, I wasn't even sure how to use it! -
iPad
The Apple iPad was one of the first multi-touch tablets released to consumers. The first generation of Apple iPads were wi-fi and bluetooth enabled. The touchscreen display was a 1,024 x 768 liquid crystal display measuring 9.7 inches in diagonal length. Apple sold more than 15 million first-generation iPads before the release of the second-generation iPad -
Taylor breaks her first laptop
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Taylor breaks her 4th phone
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First MP3 Player
The world's first mass produced digital audio player was the MPMan, made by South Korean company Saehan. It debuted in Asia in March of 1998. In Japan two models of the MPMan was sold, a 32 MB version and a 64 MB version. In North America, the MPMan was known as the Eiger MPMan F10 and Eiger MPMan F20.
