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Blaise Pascal
In 1623, a man by the name of Blaise Pascal made a machine to aid his father's accounting job by inventing the early functioning calculator. It worked by a series of gears and widgets that turned to give you the answer to the numbers you inputed. Although the exact date of the invention is not known, it was said to happen in 1623 and revolutionized the mathematics and functions at the time.
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First Computer
In 1936, the Z1 was invented and was the first computer to excel in what it was supposed to do. It used Binary for programming. This was one of, if not the, first computer to succesfully use coding to function. Konrad Zuse would later invent better versions of the "Z" prototype.
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The Invention of the Z4
In 1950, Konrad Zuse invented the Z4. The purpose of the Z4 was to be able to store thousands of words into it. Konrad hid the Z4 in a military truck to go to the United States so that it could not be spotted and destroyed. Its memory was very high at the time and worked on punch cards.
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Computer Language
In 1962, the computer language APL was invented for programmers to use. At the time, it was somewhat difficult to learn, but once a person got the hang of it, they would have an easier time programming. This language especiall, made programmers feel more in control than ever before. This language is sometime used to this day
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Computer Language BCPL
In 1966, the computer language called BCPL was in use. It was invented by a colege student by the name of Martin Richards. This computer language, compared to APL, was much easier to use. It was the first programming to write the infamos, "Hello World".
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First Memories
In 1968, the company Intel released their product to the public, and it was called DRAM. It stood for Dynamic Random Acces Memory. DRAM was capable of storing 1KB of memory. This was very helpful to people who wanted to store large amounts of information. -
Atari's Contribution
In 1972, the company Atari came to be. It had a huge impact on the programming and gaming industry. For one, the games were very smartly programmed, so if you worked at Atari and helped make the game, your knowledge on programming would intesify.Not only that, but Atari made people happy with their games.
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Microsoft
In 1976, Bill Gates leaves Harvard University and devoters all of his time to work on Microsoft. This was a software that would eventually be the most popular software to ever be used.
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Activision
In 1979, The famous company Activision was founded. This company would lead to be one of the most popular franchises in history. The games they made also allowed the player to acces coding found in the game.
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Windows 3
Microsoft released Windows 3 in 1990. Windows 3 had 640 KB of memory, which was phenominal at the time.It had much faster performance. It also had a very good internet connection speed. -
Citrix
Citrix was a cloud based system that allowed people to acces files from place to place. This is even used in York County today. This program is udes all over the world and was wildly popular when it first came out. This made it so that people didn't have to carry a flash drive, or restart their work. They could just download and acces Citrix from just about any computer and acces these files.
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Microsoft Solo
Microsoft started working on its own search engine in 1997. They were pretty succesful and got a lot of users to participate in this engine from their own popularity.
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Google
In 1998, Google is invented. Google is the most popular search engine today. This search engine was used to ask question, answer questions, and even gain knowledge to a certain subject. People could also send files and post them on Google for other people to see what they had done.
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Best Games
The best games are the ones that you get to control. In 2000, ES intrduced the sims. This became the best selling game at the time. This was because it allowed the player to do just about whatever he or she wanted. This led to people who could hack into the game to add even more customization.
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Internet
In 1982, The Worl wide web was introduced to the world. This not olnly was a huge step in programming, but in history. This made it so that people could connect to each other and not have to go from place to place. This made it so that people could remotely share each other's programs
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet
