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the first video game
In 1952, Alexander S. Douglas made the first computer game to use an electronic graphical display. OXO, also known as Noughts and Crosses, is a version of tic-tac-toe for the EDSAC computer at the University of Cambridge. -
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the floppy disk
A floppy disk, also called a diskette, is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by alan shugart in 1967. -
first mouse
The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelhard, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960's and was patented on November 17, 1970. While creating the mouse, Douglas was working at the Stanford Research Institute, a think tank sponsored by Stanford University. The mouse was originally referred to as an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System." This mouse was first used with the Xerox Alto computer system in 1973. However, because of its lack -
apple 1
The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW Microbus, and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500. It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California -
the invention of email
Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims he invented email as in 1978 at the age of 14 while working at a medical and Dentistry University in New Jersey. Today, Ayyadurai is a lecturer at MIT, and he once studied with Chomsky -
first laptop
The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 10.7 kg. It had no battery, a 13 cm CRT screen, and dual 13.3 cm single-density floppy drives. In the same year the first laptop-sized portable computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced -
The commodore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, C-64, C=64, [n 1] or occasionally CBM 64 or VIC-64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International -
The browser wars
A browser war is competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. The first browser war was Microsoft's Internet Explorer against Netscape's Navigator during the late 1990s -
The founding of google
In 1996, two students at Stanford University were working on a digital library project when they came up with a unique way of mathematically categorizing Web pages. They realized that their breakthrough could revolutionize the way search engines worked by prioritizing pages that the users themselves thought were more useful to them. The search engine they created, Google, became the most used search engine on the Web, and their company became a dominant force on the Internet -
The founding of Facebook
The origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old mark zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. Then called thefacebook.com the site was an instant hit. Now, six years later, the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month. The controversy surrounding Facebook began quickly. A week after he launched the site in 2004, Mark was accused by three Harvard seniors of having stolen the id