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Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill develop the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) while working at the University of Manchester. Seventeen instructions made up the first program to ever run on a computer. http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Electronic/SSEM.html
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E-mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist in Massachusetts. This was done by sending a message through ARPANET from one computer to another right next to it. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6116/first-e-mail-sent-by-ray-tomlinson/
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Created by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the Altair 8800 is seen as the genesis of the microcomputer revolution and the first successful personal computer. http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334396
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Apple Computers was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne to develop and sell personal computers
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The IBM Model 5150 was the personal computer that revolutionized computing as the first to gain widespread use by businesses and consumers. https://www.wired.com/2011/08/ibm-handson/
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ARPANET was the technical core of today's internet. The beginning of what we know as the internet occurs at the change from NCP protocols to TCP/IP. https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/01/30-years-tcp-and-ip-everything
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The Macintosh was introduced by Apple as the first successful computer using both a mouse and a graphical user interface.
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Five years after the first introduction, Apple introduces a portable Macintosh computer. http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/computers/macport.html
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Apple’s first product after Steve Jobs returns is the iMac, credited with the company's rebound after nearly filing bankruptcy in the 90s.
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Apple introduced "Retina displays" which closed in on the limit of pixel visibility to the human eye.
http://www.newsweek.com/what-apples-retina-display-means-386656
