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The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques and is similar to the earliest methods of stone tool making, known as the Oldowan "industry", date back to at least 2.3 million years ago.
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In 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing machine.
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone, worked at a school for the deaf while attempting to invent a machine that would transmit sound by electricity.
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ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was a secret World War II military project carried out by John Mauchly.
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ENIAC was finally deemed too old in the 1940's. It was then shipped to a museum for further looking at in the 2000's.
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense
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Ray Tomlinson. Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system.
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Ray Tomlinson. Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system
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Jump to First generation - In 1972, Magnavox released the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console which could be connected to a TV set.
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Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, and incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California.
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The system's IMPs weren't as efficient or powerful as the computer nodes in other networks. Organizations on ARPANET began to transition to other networks, mainly NSFNET. In 1990, DARPA pulled the plug on the ARPANET project.
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Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell personal computers.[5] It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. in January 1977.
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The first machine that looked like today's laptops—flat screen in a clamshell design over the keyboard—was the GRiD Compass. British designer Bill Moggridge created it in 1979, and it was actually manufactured in 1982.
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The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.
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The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web
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Dec 2, 2013 - Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic break up the World Wide Web.
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Apple's latest mobile launch is the iPhone 7 Plus. The smartphone was launched in September 2016.
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One of the first reasonably portable computers was the Xerox NoteTaker, again developed at Xerox PARC, in 1976.
