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