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the German polymath Wilhelm Schickard built the first mechanical calculator.
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Gottfried Leibniz built the first four function calculator
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George Stibitz built the first binary circuit
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the German engineer Konrad Zuse completed the Z3 the first general electro-mechanic programmable calculator
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Colossus a british computer used for codebreaking, became operational by december 1943
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the firts transistor was developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories
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The early modems were used by the US Air Force in the 1950's
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Digital Equipment Corporation launched the PDP-1 the first interactive computer that pioneered the concept of the minicomputer
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Douglas Engelbart, who later patented the first mouse
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Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel
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The predecessor to the internet went online
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The intel 4004 was the first commercially available microprocessor made by Federico Faggin
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they became commercially
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developed at Xerox PARC
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates fouded Microsoft, to developed and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8008
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Seymour Roger Cray presented the most famous commercial supercomputer, the Cray-1
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Steve Jobs and Stephan Wozniak formed Apple Computers
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The Commodore introduced Commodore 64
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The Apple Macintosh debuted, featuring a simple, graphical interface
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Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web. The CERN released the first web server