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The Colossus was a computer created in the First World War to help the Allies. it was opperational at bletchley park on 5th febuary 1944.
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The reason the Colossus computers were created was to help decrypt radio teleprinter messages.
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The Colossus Mark 2 was first working on 1st June 1944. it could shift registers at five times the speed of The Colossus Mark 1.
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The physicist Willaim Higinbotham created the first video game. it was a simple game which was similar to the 1970's game of pong. higinbotham was born on the 25th October 1910 in a place called Brigeport
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The fist version of windows is released. It was built to compete with Apple's opperating system. It was not a complete opperating system and did not get much popualitary.It was made up of many components including calendar, clock, calculator, cardfile, clipboard view, control panel, note pad, paint, reversi and more.
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it was founded in 1992 as airline networks. it was a privately owned company till 2008 when it was taken over byt the Thomas Cook Group
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it was first launched in Japan. it was the first gaming console to sell 100 million units by 9 years and six months after it was introduced. it was invented by Ken Kutaragi. he was a sony executive and was later dubbed as "the father of Playstation." it was built to rival nintendo's technology. it was one of the first hand held games consoles
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It is an online DVD or video provider. it started by only streaming to North America and parts of Europe and sending DVDs in North America via postal serivces. It's headquarters are in California. it was started by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. the idea came to hastings after he had to pay a fine for an overdue DVD. Now neflix has over 10 million subcribers and 100,000 titles to loan.
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it was founed by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman
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Richard Downs founded Iglu in 1998. It initially focused on ski and quickly became the UK's leading retailer of packaged ski holidays. In 2006 the company entered the UK cruise retail market and is now the largest online cruise agent in the UK.
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it was founded as a division of microsoft before being sold to ticketmaster in 2001.
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Shanghai-based Ctrip was founded by James Liang, Neil Shen, Min Fan, and Ji Qi in 1999.
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neflixs starts to have members subscribe to a monthly fee.
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The company was founded in 2000 by current President and CEO Arthur "Bud" Finlaw.BookIt.com enables users to plan and book travel products including hotel, cruise, airline, activities, car, and vacation packages. It operates in more than 100 destinations worldwide and maintains offices throughout the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.[
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by this time the first playstation was very populatr
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the first xbox was introduced on 15 novenber 2001 in the United States.
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it was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. it was initially limited to Harvard students.
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in March 2004 Facebook expanded to include the universities of Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.
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The idea of trivago was invented in 2004 and launched in 2005 by three german partners: Peter Vinnemeier, Malte Siewert, and Rolf Schrömgens. it is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is a world wide company. Trivago compares hotel prices and the aspects of the hotel.
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it was made by 3 former paypal employes before google bought it off them. now it is used as a subsetion of google were people can upload and view videoes.
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it was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass.
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Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to message up to 140 character messages known as "tweets."
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by this date, just under 5 years after it was introduced it had sold over 24 million units
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it was at this date that twitter was launched. it rapidly gained popularity.
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It was at this date that facebook allowed everyone above 13 acesses to facebook as a social networking site.
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By 2008 it had 100 million tweets posted every three months
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it was 4 years after facebook was launched that it finally overtook myspace as the leading social network.
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it was at thisa time from septenber to october that twitter made a seris of updateds that included, seeing pictures without having to leave twitter. and being able to log out at any time from a little black bar at the top of the screes
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Google unveiled the first driverless car on this date. it can drive itself but also has manually controls incase someone whats to manually drive it.
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in 2015 Open Bionic created a low-cost robotic prosthetic hand. there goal is to now create a prosthetic hand under the price of 100 US dollars. they think that this is possible due to 3D printing and advancing materials.
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in 2015 there is a protoype of a robo-chef it capture the human movements while someone is cooking so it can copy them and cook dishes. it ggoes at a humans speed and even does the washing up. the company said in 2015 that it is a few years away from selling and that they want to add a frige and a dishwasher
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in 2015 a bristol based university proved that you can make electricity through the use of urine, the scientist recon that it could revolutionise refugee camps enabling them to have electricity. i recon that by 2021 this eco-toliets will be used in refugee camps and possible poorer schools in places like africa for an example.
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in 2015 disney labs have created 3D printers that work by cutting and gluing layers of fabric to create a 3D object. It makes a felt or such matieral toy. i reckon that by 2025 we will have the materials and technology to 3D print durable toys that don't fall apart after a few weeks.