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Binary was invented by Gottfried Leibniz in his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire. This is important because without it early computers would have been struggling to find a language with common ground for humans and for computers to easily understand.
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Through the use of vacuum tubes the ENIAC could proccess and work equations. This computer could proccess the entire history of the human race in 90 hours.
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On July 18, 1968 Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded a company called Intel. This company in the future will become one of the best processor producing companies ever.
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The ARPANET was created during the cold war and used the TCP/IP protocol. This network was the size of a room.
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The ALOHAnet was created to connect the Hawaiian Islands. This used the ALOHA protocol and was used in the ethernet.
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The Ethernet was invented in 1973 and was inspired by ALOHAnet. This invention would lead to the spread of the internet and is still used along with Wi-Fi to give access to the internet to people around the world.
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On April 1st, 1976 the world of computers and phones forever. The creation of apple lead to the Macintosh series of computers and the series of iphones and ipads and ipods and apple watch and iOS and a lot of stuff that helped the technology industry a lot.
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In 1981 IBM released the Floppy disk to the public. The highest amount of memory on a floppy disk was 1.44 MB and they were 8 inches in diameter
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The Simon Personal Communicator was created by IBM. This phone had a calendar, address book, a calculator, and more. The price of this unit when it released was 1,099
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Google was made in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This would become the company that owns the two largest search engines in the world.
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This device was released by Apple and this release changed the smartphone market for the rest of time. Their innovation has lead to a real push in the smart phone technology.
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In 2007, Hitachi GST created the first terabyte hard drive. This was a very important milestone because now if you look at hard drives we have some 8+ terabyte hard drives and google has like 2.5 exabytes(1,000,000,000 gigabytes).
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The Motorola Atrix 4G was the first phone to include a fingerprint scanner in a phone. This would then lead the way for apple to create touch ID and for a fingerprint scanner in phones to become more mainstream and an expected item in a flagship phone.
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In April of 2016 a website was created by a company called Team Sixty Robotics. Their website was a prototype for a new business idea to anodize VEX's aluminium parts, this has never been done by any company of team to sell the parts.
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In the 2015-2016 Vex season the games was called Nothing But Net this was amazing season because this lead to this event being broadcasted on ESPN2 which is the first for a vex event. The winning alliance of the entire high school division was, 8691E, 1104M, and 400S.
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