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In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom that would use punched wooden cards to weave fabric patterns and designs.
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Charles Babbage made a calculating machine that would compute tables of numbers.
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Herman Hollerith remade the punch card system to calculate 1880 census
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Alan Turing invented the ‘Turing Machine’ which was able to compute anything computable.
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J.V Atanasoff attempted to build the first computer without gears.
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Hewlett- Packard (HP) founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett.
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Atanasoff and Clifford Berrydesign a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously.
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert builds the ENIAC.
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor.
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Grace Hopper developed the first computer language: COBOL.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit.Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his work.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern day computer.
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Alan Shugart and his team invents the ‘floppy disk’.
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates start Microsoft.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple computers and made Apple 1.
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Apple’s Lisa, the first portable computer made, giving it the modern day word ‘laptop’.
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Microsoft announces Windows.
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Term ‘Wifi’ becomes part of the computing language officially.
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Facebook a social network site launches.
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Youtube launches, a video sharing website.
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Apple introduces the Macbook Pro.
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The first Apple Watch is invented.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developed.