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The word "computer" was first used
WikipediaThe word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally was used to describe a person who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end of the 19th century when it began referring to a machine that performed calculations. -
Eniac Invented
AboutThe ENIAC was the first digital computer and cost almost $500,000. The machine was the size of a small gym and contianed over 17,000 vacuum tubes. -
The first stored program computer
Wikipedia The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby". -
First commercial computer
AboutIn 1942, Konrad Zuse begin working on the Z4, which later became the first commercial computer after being sold to Eduard Stiefel a mathematician of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on July 12, 1950. -
First computer with RAM
About MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine on March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics. -
The first transistor computer
WikipediaThe TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. -
releas of the internet
WikipediaUCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969. -
First ARPANet
Wikipedia First ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center. Kleinrock hooked up the Interface Message Processor to a Sigma 7 Computer. -
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The first apple computer was invented.
AboutSteve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976. -
