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Christopher Latham Sholes
Invented the first keyboard -
John Atanasoff
On this date he made the very first digital computer capiable of solving up to 29 simultaneous linear equations. the computer itself had no CPU but worked from vacuum tubes and worked off of DRAM memory -
Tommy Flowers
Tommy Flowers made the first programmable electronic computer. The computer was called Colossus and he used it to help solve encrypted German messages. -
John Mauchly
Made the first general perpose electronic digital computer. Computer was able to be programmed to solve a large class of numeral problems -
Grace Hopper
Invented the first high level programming language that was able to transform the source code to go to lower level languages. -
John Backus
Made the first widely used high programming language called FORTRAN which is a general purpose programming language mainly used for scientific computing -
Douglas Engelbart
Invented the first computer mouse. Had 3 buttons and was able to move -
Bill Gates
Invented Microsoft -
Adam Osborne
Made the first portable computer. Commercially avaialabe and weighed 23.5 pounds -
Shiva Ayyadurai
Invented electronic mail , that he called Email -
Bjarne Stroustrup
Invented the C++ programming langauge. mainly used towards system programming -
Tim Beners_Lee
Invented the world wide web. Used Data Centers to House world wide web servers -
Robert Gaskins
Invented Powerpoint, For Presentations -
Larry Page
Invented Google. A online search engine that was the first ever to Sort By PageRank
