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First Programmable Computer
Charles Babbage created the first programmable computer in 1833. -
Vacuum Tubes
John Ambrose Fleming created the vacuum tubes on November 16, 1904. -
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First Electronic Digital Computer
John Vincent Atanasoff created the first electronic digital computer between 1943 and 1946. -
First Automatic Computing Engine
Alan Turing created the first automatic computing engine in 1945. -
Transistor
William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain, and John Bardeen created the transistor in December of 1947. -
Artificial Intelligence
John McCarthy created Artificial Intelligence in 1956. -
Integrated Circuits
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce created the integrated circuit in 1959. -
Mouse
Douglas Engelbart and Rene Sommer created the computer mouse in 1968. -
Microprocessors
Federico Faggin, Marcian (Ted) Hoff, Stanley Mazor, and Masatoshi Shima created the microprocessor in January of 1971. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1989. -
iPhone
Steve Jobs and his team created the first iPhone in 2007. -
Reflection
The most important invention is the first programmable computer because, without it, our technology wouldn't be so advanced today.