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Z1 computer
first freely programable computer.It was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programability, reading instructions from puch page.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer) -
Number Calculator
In 1939, Bell Telephone Labratories completed this calculator, designed by researcher George Stibitz. The complex number calculator is completed.
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ABC Computer
The ABC computer was the first automatic electronic digital computer, an early electronic digital computing device that has remained somewhat obsecure.
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The Antanasoff Berry Computer
After successfully demonstrating a proof of concept prototype in 1939, Atanasoff received funds to build the full scale machine. The Antasoff Computer is completed.
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Whirlwind Installation at MIT
Project Whirlwind begins. During World War 2, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachuets Institute of Technology about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews.
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Harvard Mark 1 Computer
Harvard Mark 1 is completed. Conceived by Harvard Proffessor, Howard aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark 1 was a room sized, relay based calculator.
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Eniac
In Feburary, the public got its first glimpse of the Eniac, a machine built by John Maulchy and J. Prepser Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries.
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Univac Computer
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners. The univac was the first american computer designed at the outset for buisness for buisness and administrative use.
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Spacewar Computer Game
The first computer game ever invented. It is a two player game, with each player taking control of a starship and attempting to destroy the other.
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Intel 1103 Computer Memory
The world's first available dynamic RAM chip. While introduced in 1970, production yields were poor at first, and it wasn't until the fifth stepping of the production masks that it was widely available, sometime in 1971.
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The IBM PC Home Computer
From an "Acorn" grows a personal computer revolution. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of IBM Entry Systems Division.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple. Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer kernal that was intended OS/2.
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Google
Google.com is registered as a domain on september 15. The name a play on the word googol a mathematical term for the number represented by numeral 1.
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Facebook
Facebook gradually enlarges the set of people who are allowed to register, starting from Harvard University only in January 2004 then gradually extending more.
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Youtube
Youtube is the most popular online video destination on the planet. But more than 4 years after google bought You Tube, the search giant going to ticker.
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/04/06/youtubes-history-googles-repeated-revamps/
