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The History of Computers
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The first mechanical computer was designed by Charles Babbage
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Air conditioners were first created by Willis Haviland Carrier.
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Alan Turing developed the concept of a theoretical computing machine.
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The Colossus, a code- break machine, was developed by Alan Turing
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Tommy Flowers created the Colossus.
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Steve Russell and MIT created, Spacewar, the first computer game.
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Douglas Engelbart created the first computer mouse.
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The RAM chip was created!
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Alan Shugart and IBM created the first Floppy disk.
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Email was first created by Ray Tomlinson
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CDs’ were first created in the United States.
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The first cell phone was created by Martin Cooper
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Altair produces the first portable computer.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allan created Microsoft.
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Apple computers were first created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
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Magnetic Tape was developed by the United States.
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WordStar Software (Word processors) was created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston.
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Microsoft Windows was created!
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The Nintendo was created!
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The World Wide Web was introduced!
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Yahoo! was founded!
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Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos
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Java was founded!
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Ebay was founded by Pierre Omidyar
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Hotmail was launched!
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MP3.com was founded by Michael Robertson and Greg Flores.
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Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
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Xbox was created by Bill Gates.
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iPod was created by Apple.
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Skype was founded.
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Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurkey and Jawed Karim founded Youtube.