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Charles Babbage, tha mathmetician creates a steam-drivern calculating machine to compute tables of numbers.
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Herman Hollerith designs a system that punches cards, created for a concencus, later founding IBM.
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J.V. Atanasoff attempts to create a computer without gears, belts, or shafts.
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Atanasoff and a graduate create a device that solves 29 math problems at once. It was the first computer to store information.
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Two proffesors (John Mauchly and Presper Eckert) create ENIAC, which fills a 20 x 40 foot room with 18,000 tubes.
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Mauchly and Presper leave their University to build the UNIVAC, the first computer for business and government use.
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Grace Hopper creates the first "computer language" known as COBOL.
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FORTRAN programming language births.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce create an integrated computer circuit, or "computer chip."
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Douglas Englelbart shows a computer prototype with a mouse and keyboard and a GUI.
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Intel releases Intel 1103, the only and first DRAM (Dynamic Access Memory) chip.
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Alan Slaugart leads IBM to create the "floppy disk," which allows data to be shared.
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Robert Metcalfee, member of the Xerox research staff, creates Ethernet which allows devices and computers to be connected.
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Numerous personal computers are released, including Scelbi and Mark-8 Altaire.
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IBM 5100 most avaible portable computer released.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create Apple Computers and release the Apple 1, the first single circuit board.
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Radio Shack produces TRS-80 for only $3,000.
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VisiCalc, the first computerized spreadsheet program is released.
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Word processing becomes possible with Word Star.
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IBM's first personal computer comes out under the name "Acorn."
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Apple releases "Lisa," the first PC with a GUI.
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Microsoft announces the launch of Windows.
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Compaq introduces the Deskpro 386.
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Tim Barners Lee develops Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), launching the world-wide web (WWW).
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The Pentium microprocessor advances graphics and music on PCs.
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PCs become gaming machines when many video games released.
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The term Wi-Fi computing languages, and internet without wires.
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Sony releases the Playstation 2.
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Apple reveals Mac OSX operating system, providing protected memory architecture.
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AMD Athlon, the first 64-Bit processor, is released.
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Mozilla's Firefox becomes a new dominant web-browser.
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Apple releases the Mac Book Pro. Nintendo Wii is released.
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Apple introduces the iPhone, which brings many computer functions to the smartphone.
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Microsoft releases Windows 7. Offers the ability to pin to the taskbar.
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Apple releases the iPad, jump starting table computers.
