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Konrad Zuse invented the Z1 computer which was the first freely programmable computer.
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Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere. Using 2,300 relays, the Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length. The original Z3 was destroyed in a bombing raid of Berlin in late 1943. However, Zuse later supervised a reconstruction of the Z3 in the 1960s which is currently on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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Claude Shannon´s "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" showed engineers how to code data so they could check for accuracy after transmission between computers. Shannon identified the bit as the fundamental unit of data and, coincidentally, the basic unit of computation.
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John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly ivented the UNIVAC which was the first commercial computer and was able to pick presidential winners.
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Douglas Engelbart nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.
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The first original Internet.
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The first consumer computers.
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The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
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The World Wide Web (WWW) is born after researcher Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language.
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