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Blaise Pascal invents the the "Pascaline" mechanical adding machine
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punched cards
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The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
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Samuel Morse invents Morse code
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Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard invent the Tabulating Machine
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone
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Herman Hollerith invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters
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Lee De Forest invents the electronic tube
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Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine
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Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language
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George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator
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John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
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F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)
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William Shockley invents the transistor at Bell Labs
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Douglas Engelbart theorises on interactive computing with keyboard and screen display instead of on punchcards
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Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn develop the SSEM "Small Scale Experimental Machine"
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Hideo Yamachito, Japan
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The first commercial computer made in the United States and designed principally by John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
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The EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) begins performing basic tasks. Unlike the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal
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John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
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Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer.
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Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
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Reaction to Soviet Space program Sputnik
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Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US
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Paul Baran theorizes on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines
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COBOL: The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL)
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The first computer game: The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT
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The Computer Mouse: Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end)
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.
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IBM introduces the first word processor
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BASIC: John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC)
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Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"
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ARPANET: The U.S. Department of Defense sets up (ARPANET ) this network was
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The first building blocks to what the internet is today but originally with the intention of creating a computer network that could withstand any type of disaster.
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Intel introduces the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
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E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson
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The compact disc is invented in the United States
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Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs: Robert Metcalfe creates a local-area network (LAN) protocol
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Gateways: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks
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Altair produces the first portable computer
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The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
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Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
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the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstrated
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Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates: IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop
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Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, net, org and int.
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Windows: Microsoft Windows introduced eliminating the need for a user to have to type each command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface
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Paul Brainard introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh creating the desktop publishing field.
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Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet
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The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991
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founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web
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Amazon: Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
EBay: EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
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