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Hans Christian Ørsted and André-Marie Ampère recognize Electromagnetism
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Mathematician Grace Hopper completes A-0, a program that allows a computer user to use English-like words instead of numbers to give the computer instructions
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John Backus completes Speedcode for IBM´s first large-scale scientific computer, the IBM 701.
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A team drawn from several computer manufacturers and the Pentagon develop COBOL—an acronym for Common Business-Oriented Language.
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Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) is Demonstrated
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ASCII — American Standard Code for Information Interchange — permits machines from different manufacturers to exchange data.
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The C programming language is released.
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Mitch Kapor develops Lotus 1-2-3, a software suite for the IBM PC based on a word processor, spreadsheet, and database.
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The C++ programming language emerges as the dominant object-oriented language in the computer industry.
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Apple engineer William Atkinson designs HyperCard, a software tool that simplifies development of in-house applications.
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Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, a public-key encryption program, is introduced and is used for securing texts, emails and files.
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Java 1.0 is introduced by Sun Microsystems.
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Scratch is released to the public.
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HTML 5 is announced as the successor to HTML 4, which had become the standard for web markup languages in 1997