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Ava Lovelace become the "first computer programmer" after she described an algorithm that was called the first computer program.
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This was the first electronic digital computer that was designed to solve linear equations.
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In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper discovered a moth stuck in the Mark II Alken Relay Calculator. They removed the moth and performed the first "debug."
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The first computer game, called Spacewar, was created in 1961. This took roughly 200 hours to create.
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In 1962, Kenneth Iverson published a book that detailed a form of mathematical notation that would later be used in computer programming.
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In 1963, this program allowed computers from different manufacturers to exchange data.
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In 1970, Niklaus Wirth created Pascal which was the first computer language ever created and is still used with Skype today.
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In 1983, Bjarne Stroustrup created C++ which is still used in Google Chrome.
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In 1983, Microsoft released the application Word, originally calling it Multi-Tool Word.
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In 1995, Java was introduced in which you could run a program on any system.
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In 1997, Microsoft released Visual Studio, which allowed programmers to do all their work with one program.
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In 2001, BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing system, was released.
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