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Programming History- 1822-1900
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First mechanical computer
Charles Babbage made the difference engine; a device used for mathematical tables.
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Programming History- 1900 to 1960
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First Digital Electronic Computer
The first digital electronic computer was devised by John V. Atanasoff. It was designed to solve simple equations.
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Standards Electronic/Eastern Automatic Computer
The US National Bureau of Standards came up with the first computer to use diodes for handling logic called the Standards Electronic/Eastern Automatic Computer.
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Bell Labs- Transistor
The first transistor, a device used to make computers energy-efficient, was made by Bell Labs.
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Programming History- 1960 to 1970
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LINC-8
LINC-8 (Laboratory Instrumentation Computer) offered laboratory data processing.
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DAC-1
The DAC-1 (Computer Aided Design program) is released.
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PDP-8
The first mini computer, NOVA, called PDP-8, is made by DEC (Data General Corporation). It had 32 kilobytes of memory and was $8,000.
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Pascal
Pascal was made by Niklaus Wirth in 1970. It is a high leveled programming language named after Blaise Pascal
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Programming History- 1970 to 1990
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C
Dennis Ritchie developed C, the transition of uses of major computer languages, and was similar to Pascal. C ws made to be faster and do more and it extensively used pointers, but was hard to read.
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Xerox Alto
Xerox Alto, a mini computer was made. This computer led to the development of personal computers.
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Alto
Alto, made by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, was the first work station that came with an inbuilt mouse. It came with menus and icons and a fair amount of storage.
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First Portable Computer
The first portable computer was made by Altair.
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HTML
A researcher at CERN called Tim Berners-Lee, created HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a set of symbols or codesput into a file in which gets showed on the World Wide Web browser.
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Programming History- 1990 to Present day
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Pentium Microprocessor
The Pentium Microprocessor was made by Intel and is a 32-bit microprocessor. It had advancements in graphics.
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Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is a new part of the computing language which allows cellular devices and users to connect to the internet wirelessly.
http://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html
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