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First computer
The Mark Serries of computers is first invented at Harvard University. From here on the computer advance quickly. -
COBOL
In 1953, Grace Hopper created COBOL(Common Business Oriented Language) which was the first widely used high level programming language for business application -
The Integrated Circle
The integrated Circle is actually a Computer chip invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. In 2000 Kilby was awarded the Nobel-Prize in Physics for his wonderful work. -
Spacewar
Invented by Steve Russell, was the first game invented for computer use -
The Computer Mouse
Invented by Douglas Engelbart, was the first mouse. Because of the tail at the end of the mouse, it was called "mouse" -
BASIC
Beginners All-purpose Symbiotic Instruction Code(BASIC) was developed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. It was designed to simplify language for those without a strong technical or mathematical background. -
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Invented/ funded by the the U.S. Department of Defense is Advanced Research Projects Agency Network(ARPANET). It was the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. -
C
C was developed by Dennis Ritchie and is used for the Unix operating system. C is really powerful to the extent UNix kernel was mostly rewritten in C -
Structured English Query Language
SEQUEL, was designed by an IBM research center and was invented by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce. It's now called SQL. -
Portable Computers
Invented by Ed Roberts was the Altair 8080, which produced the first portable computer. This invention was described as "world's first minicomputer kit " -
The internet
Computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web(WWW). Bernee-Lee proposed a 'hypertext' system into WWW starting the modern Internet -
Python
Guido Van Rossum developed Python to fix problems in the ABC language -
Google
Found in Sept 7, 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It was invented in order to organize information on the Internet and help users find the information they were looking for. Google began as a search engine, now it's become the leading search engine on the Web. -
Facebook
Facebook was invented by a Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and three of his classmates – Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz on February 4, 2004. The goal was to help people understand what was going in their world a little better by sharing info to who they wanted. -
Instagram
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app.The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 300 million as of December 2014. It was created to build a website where you can like, share and comment on photos in a totally different way than Facebook.
