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Voltaic Pile
The Voltaic pile was created by Alessandro Volta. The Voltaic pile is the first electrical battery that could continue to send electrical currents to a circuit. This battery was so important that the 19th century industry was powered by the Voltaic Pile. Without this we would have never have any type of technology to start off the history of Computer!
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First programmable Computer
The First Programmable computer created by Konrad Zuse is considered to be one of the most important technologies in history. The predecessors of this computer are the computers we have now. Thus, this is one of the most important inventions in history. This gave birth to most of our technology that we have today.
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Colossus
The colossus was created by Alan Turing. Alan Turing created the Colossus as a code breaking machine to help out in world war II to help his country to break the codes sent from Germany. The colossus was created before the 1st of January 1940 and kept as a secret but it was revealed on the 1st of January 1940. Photo: http://bit.ly/1kOie6M -
Integrated Circuit
The Integrated Circuits was created by Jack Kilby. The Integrated Circuits is one of the most important technologies in the history. The integrated Circuit hold lots and lots of transistors, therefore minimizes the size of the Computers. This technology allows us to have our computers the size it is today.
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Internet
The internet was created by a group of people, Vint Cerf was among one of them. The Internet is incredibly important to everyone and is one of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. The Internet gave the computers a reason to be used. Without the Internet there wouldn't be even a quater of the people using computers today. The Internet not only is used for computers but it is also used for phones and tablets.
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First Ever Mouse Invented
(Propsed in 1963 and created in 1964) The first ever mouse was created from wood by Douglas Engelbort. This invention made the way of how we use our computers much easier. Although most of us now do not use mouses because we are able to control our curser by other ways, but the mouse was a huge inventions and it was sought to be revolutionary at the time. Photo: http://bit.ly/1SRFOd7 -
Random accessibly Memory (RAM)
Random Accessibly Memory (RAM) was created by Dennard. Random Accessible Memory is a computer data storage where we can store lots of information and data. Our computers are so convenient and efficient because of this invention. The RAM can hold lots of data which makes it possible for us to download many softwares without losing storage space quickly.
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Touchscreen
The Touchscreen was invented by a group of developers, Dr. G. Samuel was among one of those developers. The Touchscreen is very important to our daily lives as our phones and computers are touchscreen. Although this did not change the way we use our computers but it changed our phones in many ways.
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E-mail
The E-mail was created by Ray Tomlinson. E-mail is one of the most important inventions to help us communicate without talking verbally in real life. E-mail is one of the first ways to communicate and send information through technoloy. Even though we can communicate through other means, we still use E-mail because it is so important to our daily lives.
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First portable computer
The IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center developed a prototype of a portable computer. This was called SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable) also known as IBM 5100 Portable Computer. This revolutionary ideas started all the portable computers that we have today. Photo: http://computerstories.net/what-was-the-first-pc-4921 (4th photo) -
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is one of the first and most used Operating systems in the world. The first operating system written by MIcrosoft is MS-DOS. Microsoft windows is not only used on laptops but also on phones and game consoles, like Nokia and Xbox. Microsoft Windows is used by millions every day from computer, phones and game consoles.
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World Wide Web (WWW)
The World Wide Web commonly known as the web is incredibly important as it is a way of sharing websites and documents by URLs. The www furthured our usage of the internet. The world wide web is always used to get us to the websites we want to go to. The World Wide Web is one of the most revolutionary inventions of all time as we could share our information more efficiently.
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Wireless Network
The Wireless network is a wireless way that allows you to be connected to the internet without using lots of cables. This helped a lot as it was incredibly efficient to set up and very easy to connect to. Almost everyone in the world uses the wireless network. The Wireless Network helps us not only to connect to the internet but also to connect to our printers. Photo: http://bit.ly/1QdIkLQ -
Google
Google is extremely important to us, as it is the most used search engine in the world. Google is not only used as a search engine but there are also apps like google maps and google earth that help our life a lot. Not only are they making our life efficient and convenient online they are also being active in the real life. Google are starting projects that will be revolutionary to mankind like the Google Cars!
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Universal Serial Bus (USB)
The USB was invented by Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oron Ogdan. The USB is incredibly important as it is a way of transferring a huge amount of information easily and conveniently. This made sharing our information and documents very convenient offline. The USB could had a massive amount of storage and can hold almost everything. Sometimes it isn't possible to send huge files online but it definently is possible by using USBs.
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Iphone 1
(Introduced in January 9 2007) The first Iphone created was by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. This is very revolutionary as it started the competetion between different phone brands. Not only did it start using the touchscreen as a huge feature it also is the most used phone in the world today. Without this we would've never have the phones we have today.
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