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The Difference Engine
https://dustyloft.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/14th-june-1822-charles-babbage-proposes-building-computer/
Charles Babbge proposed building a computer, it could be used to compute mathematic tables. Before this machine, these were calculated by hand. -
IBM is founded
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/founded/
IBM is a computing-tabulating-recording Company. It was a merger of 3 separate businesses. -
Invention of Colossus (no exact day)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=When%20was%20colossus%20created%3F&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=when%20was%20colossus%20created%3F&sc=1-26&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=B1B43393D4DA418E82651A5F1D51F79C
Colossus was invented to help speed up the analysis of lengthy messages sent by the commanders of the German army to hitler. -
COBOL programming language created (no specific day or month)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/cobol/introduction
A small group of programmers wrote the first program able to be ran on more than one computer. -
First computer mouse (no specified day or month)
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/613/The-History-of-the-Computer-Mouse/
The mouse was a wooden shell, circuit board and two metal wheels that came into contact with the surface one which it was being used -
IBM creates the first floppy disk (no sepcific day or month)
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/floppy/
A small team of engineers create the floppy disk -
Invention of email (no specific date)
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/innovation/inventing_email.pdf
Email allowed for communication between persons through computer devices. -
Invention of Pong
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/pong.htm
Pong was created by Atari, a simpe videogame, but the first to be created. -
Invention of the Apple computer ( no specific date)
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Apple_Computers.htm
Invention of the first apple computer, by Steve Jobs -
IBM and Microsoft stop working togther (no specific date)
The two companies end their partner ship and begin working individualy. -
Java (no specific day)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javahistory-index-198355.html
Java was a new form of computer language introduced, andstill being used and updated. -
Xbox
https://www.reference.com/hobbies-games/inventor-xbox-ab1b47ed781f1b0b
Created and released by microsoft