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The first attempt at creating a computer was made. Funded by the english government Charles Babbage unsuccesfuly tried to create a steam powered machine that can decipher tables and numbers.
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Herman designed a punch card system that could calculate the 1880 census in three years. e saved the government 5 million dollars and created IBM.
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Konrad Zuse created the Z1 computer in 1936. This was the first computer because it was completely programmable.
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Atanasoff and one of his students created the first computer able to solve 29 equations simutaneously.
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On June 5, 1943 the construction conteact was signed to make the ENIAC. When it was finished,the Electronic Numerical Integrater And calculator, the grandfather of computers, filled a 20 by 40 foot room with about 17,468 vacuum tubes
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Mauchly and Presper left the University of Pennsylvania after recieving funding from the Cencus Bureau to build the UNIVAC
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Grace Hopper created the frst computer language known as COBOL
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FORTRAN programming langauge is born. FORTRAN was used for science computing and engineering
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invent the integrated circuit, A.K.A. the computer chip
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Douglas Englebart creates a prototype of the modern computer with a mouse and Graphical User Interface, or GUI. This makes computers more accessible to the general public.
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Alan Shugart and a team of IBM workers create the ever-loved, "floppy" disc
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Robert Metcalfe, a member of Xerox, creates ethernet to connect multiple devices at once
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The first dot-com was symbolics.com and was created on March 15, 1985
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PCs become gaming devices as many games come out to the market.
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Wi-Fi becomes a well-known term for computers. This allows you to connect to the internet without wires
