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Between 1000 and 500 BC, the abacus was invented in Babylonia.
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In 1642, Blaise Pascal made the Arithmetic Machine. He used it to count money.
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In the 1670s, Leibinitz made a machine called Step Reckoner
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In the 1820s Charles Babbage invented the Difference Engine,his first machine. Years later, Babbage began work in the Analytical machine.
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Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer in the world, worked with Babbage and she wrote a program for the analytical engine.
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In 1937 Alan Turing wrote the idea of a machine that could read programs. In 1939 Alan Turing worked with other mathematicians in building machines to break secret codes
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Konrad Zuse, was considered one of the best inventor of the 1930s. their machines could compare it with today's machines
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During the second World War, the Germans were using machines called enigma machines to send messages in code. Alan Turing began working on a computer to break this code.
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Alan Turing and other mathematicians invented colossus at Bletchley Park
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Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen started Microsoft
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In 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded the Apple Computer.
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IBM made their first home computer in 1981.
In the 1980s. There were many different computer companies ( Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Amstrad, Acorn -
The Internet started in the 1970s, but was only used by
governments and universities.
In 1990s, the World Wide Web is founded by Tim Berners-Lee ,years later Sergey and Larry Page started Google. -
Shawn Fanning started napster,it was the first company to share music in internet
