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Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to read the 1880 census.
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Professor J.V. Atanasoff of physics and mathematics attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.
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Professor J.V. Atanasoff and one of this graduate student, Clifford Berry design a computer that can solve 29 equations at the same time.
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Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL.
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The FORTRAN progamming language is born.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the first computer chip.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface, or GUI.
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Alan Shugart and a team of IBM engineers inevent the "floppy disk."
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Robert Metcalfe, a reasearch member for the company Xerox, develpos Ethernet.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April 1at and invent Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
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The first IBM computer is introduced. It uses Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system and carries and Intel chiop plus two floppy disks.
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Microsoft anounces Windows.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the internet without wires.
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Sony releases the PlayStation 2
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The IPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone.
