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Jacquard loom
In 1801, Jospeh Marie Jacquard invented an impeoved textile loom, the Jacquard loom; a changeable punched cards controlled the operation of the loom.
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First computer program
Ana Lovelace translated an article about Charles Babbage's proposed Analytic Engine.She describes an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. And she has often been cited as the first computer programmer for this reason
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Herman Hollerith
In 1881, Herman Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyze the 1890 US census data. For his tabulation machine he used the punchcard invented in the early 1800s, by a French silk weaver called Joseph-Marie Jacquard.inventors.about.com -
Howard Aiken
In Hoboken, New Jersey, Howard Aiken was born. This is the man who built and designed the IBM's Harvard Mark I computer which was originally called the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC).
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Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry built a prototype ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) in 1939, and a full-scale model in 1942. Like the Bell Labs Model I, the ABC was not a computer in the modern sense, since it lacked program control and was not general purpose.
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Colossus
Colossus was the name of a series of computers developed for British codebreakers in 1943-1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus is regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by plugs and switches and not by a stored program.
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The 1st computer 'bug'
On the 9th of September, 1947, when the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer) was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F
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EDSAC
An early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer was created at the University of Cambridge in England, performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949, and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby."
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FORTRAN
FORTRAN or formula translation was the first high level programming language (software) invented by John Backus for IBM in 1954, and released commercially in 1957.
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The 1st Hard Drive
IBM ships the first hard drive in the RAMAC 305 system. The drive holds 5MB of data at $10,000 a megabyte. The system is as big as two refrigerators and uses 50 24-inch platters.
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The 1st Computer Game
Spacewar is one of the earliest digital computer video games. Steve "Slug" Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz, and Wayne Wiitanen of the fictitious "Hingham Institute" conceived of the game in 1961, with the intent of implementing it on a DEC PDP-1 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The 1st long distant dial-up connection
Lawrence G. Roberts with MIT performs the first long distant dial-up connection between a TX-2 computer n Massachusetts and a Q-32 in California.
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The 1st message sent over the Internet/network crash
Charley Kline a UCLA student tries to send "login", the first message over ARPANET at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted "l" and then "o" but then crashed making today the first day a message was sent over the Internet and the first network crash.
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The 1st CPU
Intel placed an advertisement for the first single-chip CPU, the Intel 4004, in Electronic News. Designed by the fantastically-forenamed Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stanley Mazor, the 4004 was a 4-bit, 16-pin microprocessor that operated at a mighty 740KHz — and at roughly eight clock cycles per instruction cycle (fetch, decode, execute), that means the chip was capable of
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The 1st Apple Computer
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak demonstrate the first Apple computer at the Home Brew Computer Club in April of 1976. The Apple I had 6502 MOS 1MHz processor, 8kB of onboard memory, and 1kB of VRAM for $666.66. Below is a picture of an Apple I from an advertisement by Apple.
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The 1st Computer virus Programmer
Fred Cohen, a University of Southern California graduate student, gives a prescient peek at the digital future when he demonstrates a computer virus during a security seminar at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. His proof-of-concept program put computer scientists on notice about the potential scourge of an intentionally malicious attack.
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IBM's 1st Laptop Computer
IBM PC Division (PCD) announces it's first laptop computer, the PC Convertible, weighing 12 pounds, which is 18 pounds lighter than the earlier portable computer.
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Introduction to the World Wide Web
It was first introduced to the public on August 6, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee. The world wide web consists of billions of pages linked to each other that contain text, graphics, multimedia files, and other interactive software.
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Growth of the Web
By January 1993 there were fifty Web servers across the world; by October 1993 there were over five hundred. By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was still minute compared to present figures.
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The 1st Mp3 Player
The first commercially available MP3 player was the Seahan's MPMan sold in Asia in early spring of 1998 and then later sold as the Eiger Labs MPMan F10 in the United States.
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The 1st Presidential webcast
On June 24, 2000 U.S. President Bill Clinton makes the first ever Presidential webcast. On the announcements President Bill Clinton announces a new website that will be able to search all government resources.
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