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In fact, the layout was designed to help people type faster. The QWERTY (QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets.) layout is attributed to an American inventor named Christopher Latham Sholes, and it made its debut in its earliest form on July 1, 1874 -
Informed by Jacob Rabinow's ideas at NBS, IBM developed and shipped the first commercial Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the Model 350 disk storage unit, to Zellerbach Paper, San Francisco in June 1956 as part of the IBM 305 RAMAC. -
The Kenbak-1, released in early 1971, is considered by the Computer History Museum to be the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early 1971. -
The first version of Windows, released in 1985, was simply a GUI offered as an extension of Microsoft's existing disk operating system. -
The release of the first version of Google on the Stanford Web site in August 1996. -
It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.