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The Abacus was the first counting device. This invention began the use of machines.
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The binary code was introduced by Leibniz and will soon become the basis of computing codes.
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Boolean Logic was created by George Boole and will become the basis for computer logic in the future.
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The typewriter was the first typing machine and it was invented by William Austin Burt. Thus began the use of keyboards.
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the Z1 was invented by Zuse and is the first programmable calculating machine to use the binary system.
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The first computer "bug" was literally a bug and it flew into the machine and caused a huge malfunction and thus originated "ccmputer bugs" aka viruses today.
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The Whirlwind computer was invented by Jay Forrester and his team at MIT and it was the first real-time computer.
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The first working computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engleburt. It made navagation a whole lot easier.
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The first Apple computer was made by Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozhiak. It was built in their garage and it isnt much more than a circuit board in a wooden box. It was the start of something HUGE!
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Microsoft WIndows is released for the first time and is now one of the biggest corporations today.