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Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a punched wooden cards loom.
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Charles Babbage creates it to compute tables of numbers but the project is a failure.
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Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census, accomplishing the task in just three years.
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Alan Turing present a machine capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computers was based on his ideas.
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Begins the comercialitation of the IBM 5100
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool’s Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board
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The first IBM personal computer,code-named “Acorn,” is introduced. It uses Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system.
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PCs become gaming machines as "Command & Conquer," "Alone in the Dark 2," "Theme Park," "Magic Carpet," "Descent" and "Little Big Adventure" are among the games to hit the market.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.
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Mozilla’s Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browsers.
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YouTube, a video sharing service, is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system.
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The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone
