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Cathode Ray Tube
F.C. Williams created the Cathrode Ray Tube, which is a storing device.
It is important because this invention lead to RAM -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart theorized about creating a keyboard and screen display instead of card-hole-punchers.
This is revelutionary because, without that thought process and trying to do it, computers wouldn't be as user friendly -
UNIVAC
The first commercial computer built in the United States. It was primarily designed by John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly.
This is important because without this step forward, computers still might be used only for scientific and military projects, and not for the average person. -
ARPA and NASA
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration) are created.
This is important because both organizations helped make huge leaps in technology advancements. -
COBOL
The COBOL computer language was invented.
This was a huge advancements for computers because it allowed us to understand them easier and program them easier -
ARPANET
ARPANET: The U.S. Department of Defense set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). This network was the beginning to creating the internet. (originally created to control and handle any type of attack).
This is important because the internet is used all the time now and is one of the reasons that so many people use computers -
E-mail
Email was first created by Ray Tomlinson.
This is amazing because this lead to more social networking sites and allowed for a faster way of communicating -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was launched on this day.
This is important because the world wide web is pretty much the internet and lead to more advances like google and yahoo -
Google
Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This is important because almost everybody who has a computer now uses google as their search engine. Also google uses the spider bugs to take "pictures" of websites to display when someone searches something. -
Ipod
The Ipod was introduced by Apple as a portable music player.
This is an important time in computer history, because we were able to make a very small music player, that didn't need a CD. We were able to put all the music playing technology that came from a computer into a small box
