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Charles Babbage designs the Analytical Machine that follows instructions from punched-cards. It is the first general purpose computer, and was capable of pefrorm calculations.
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George and Edvard Scheutz of Stockholm build the first practical mechanical computer based on Babbage's work with the Analytical machine.
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Telephone is invented by a man named Alexander Graham Bell.
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Hollerith founds the Tabulating Machine Co. and constructs a sorting machine.
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Czech word robot is used to describe mechanical workers in the play R.U.R. by Karel Capek.
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First public demonstration of television. Also, the Radio-telephone becomes operational between London and New York
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The Manchester Differential Analyser, an analog computer, was completed to calculate differential equations.
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UNIVAC, the first commercial computer (unless it was Feranti’s) was shipped by Remington Rand. It used mercury delay lines for memory and reels of magnetic tape for storage. It’s first use was to tabulate the 1950 census results.
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Feranti Ltd. completes the first commercial computer (unless it was UNIVAC). It was based on the “Feranti Mark I” but was also known as the “Manchester Mark II”, “MUDC”, “MUEDC”, and “MADAM”. They sold 8 of these even though the leading expert, Douglas Hartree, had assured them 3 existing computers would handle all the calculations that would ever be needed in England.
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IBM enters the computer business with the “701″
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The first RAM chip was created in the 1970's!
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Email was first created by a man named Ray Tomlinson. It has expanded worldwide and has been taken by many companies such as Yahoo! Google, and Microsoft!
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Back in 1973, they used 1G, the first commercially automated cellular network. Everything began in Japan, but in no time, it became worldwide!
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Bill Gates and Paul Allan created Microsoft in 1975! It is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Their products have ranged from computers to Android phones in last few decades. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees!
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Originally, Apple computers were designed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs! Say thank you to the creators of your favorite computers!
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Magnetic Tape was developed by the United States and revolutionized recording and broacasting! For a strip of plastic, it has done so much for the broadcasting industry and also captured many important moments in society and in our lives!
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The game that swept the world was created by Namco in 1980! Pac-Man is one of the longest running video game franchises from the golden age of video arcade games!
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Doo doo doo too doo doo doo! The Mario Brothers first appeared in 1983! n this game, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York. All you need to know in this game, is how to jump, run and how to squish things!
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In 1983, the first Windows OS (Windows 1.0) was created. It originally operated on 3 basic colors! Imagine the Paint application on that!
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This old-fashioned classic game that has driven Brent students crazy and glued to their laptops, was created in 1984 in Russia! It was announced that Tetris has sold more than 100 million copies for cell phones alone since 2005!
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Who has never heard of a gameboy? Before the PSP or the Nintendo DS, this handheld video game device was the best friend of kids! It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America on July 31, 1989, and in Europe on September 28, 1990. Upon its US launch, it sold around one million consoles in the span of a week.
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Need for Speed, a series of racing games was published by a Canadian company, Electronic Arts. It models various car modelsand various tracks that can be unlocked! It has had 17 installments since its first launch!
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No, not the rice. You know the thing that helps you load the cool things like games and videos? Yeah, that's Java. It was created in 1995!
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The USB, or Universal Serial Bus, was created by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). USB-IF is a consortium of leading hardware and software companies such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Intel, Apple Inc, IBM, NEC and so on. The USB replaced the seemingly obsolete floppy disks as storage devices, with its great storage capacity.
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Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in
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Now known as Windows Live Messenger, this instant messenger client has gone a long way! Nowadays, you can share files such as pictures and videos here! In June 2009, Microsoft reported the service attracted over 330 million active users each month.
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Selling around 6.3 million copies worldwide, The Sims, a simulation game, allowing a person to recreate lives virtually, has earned many awards, including GameSpot's "Game of the Year Award" for 2000. Since then, it has released seven expansion packs and sequels!
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The iPod, a portable media player created by Apple Inc was launched on October 23, 2001. It was used to transfer and play media files of all kinds and has become the most popular media player with its new line of touchscreen devices!
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Skype, the famous instant messaging and audio/video calling software, was launched in 2003! Skype has 663 million registered users as of 2010!
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Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. This was originally created for Harvard students and other Ivy League students, yet expanded worldwide, becoming the most used social network in the world,
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The video sharing site that made so many people famous, Youtube, was created in 2005! This site allows sharing of videos, like movie clips and music videos without any cost!
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In 2007, a man named David Karp founded Tumblr, a blogging site which is very user-friendly and fun to use! Here, users are allowed to create photo posts, video posts, text posts and so on!
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Looklet.com launched in 2009, allowing users to mix and match different outfits and different backgrounds. The site allows aspiring designers and stylists to create and explore.
