Technology History 6B

  • The British Bombe

    The British Bombe
    The British Bombe, the first bombe, was a device used by the British to decrypt Nazi ENIGMA-based military communications. The idea of the bombes belongs to the Alan Turing and Harold Keen.
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  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    The ENIAC was the grandfather of digital computers. It was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania. LiveScience
  • Invention of the Keyboard

    Invention of the Keyboard
    The first electric keyboard was invented for the Binac computer. it resembled an electric typewriter. Reference
  • The Hard Drive

    The Hard Drive
    Commercial use of hard drives began in 1956. The first was the IBM model 350 disk storage. Wikipedia
  • First Modern Computer Prototype

    First Modern Computer Prototype
    The first modern computer prototype was shown with the computer mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI). IT was made by Douglas Engelbart.
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  • ARPANET: The first computer network invented

    ARPANET: The first computer network invented
    The ARPANET was created during the Cold War and was the first network that used the TCP/IP protocol. It used packet switching and developed into the Internet in 1982. Wikipedia
  • The First Cell Phone

    The First Cell Phone
    The Motorola employee, Martin Cooper, stood in midtown Manhattan and made a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New jersey.
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  • Apple I

    Apple I
    The Apple I was the first computer made by the creators of Apple Computers, whom were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. It was the first computer made with only a single-circuit board.
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  • The Development of the HTML

    The Development of the HTML
    A researcher, Tim Berners-Lee, at a high energy physics laboratory in Geneva developed the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Which in the following years sparked the rise of the World Wide Web.
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  • Wi-Fi

    Wi-Fi
    Wi-Fi becomes part of the computer language. It also allows users to connect to the Internet without the use of wires.
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  • Mac OS X Operating System

    Mac OS X Operating System
    Apple released the Mac OS X operating system, which included protected memory architecture. Another feature that it was capable of was pre-emptive multi-tasking.
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  • Xbox 360

    Xbox 360
    The Xbox 360 was the second console of the Xbox console family. It competed against the PlayStation 3 and Wii, as part of the seventh generation of gaming consoles.
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  • MacBook Pro

    MacBook Pro
    Apple introduced the MacBook Pro. The MacBook pro was the company's first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer.
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  • Apple iPad

    Apple iPad
    Apple released the iPad. It changed the way everyone could view media and jump-started the dormant tablet computer segment.
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  • iPhone 7

    iPhone 7
    Apple's newest phone, iPhone 7, did away with the normal everyday headphones, and made wireless ones instead. It also introduced an even smarter SIRI.
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