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Benjamin Franklin flies a kite that collects a charge after being struck by lightning.
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Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards.
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Samuel Morse invents a code (later called Morse code) that used different numbers to represent the letters of the English alphabet and the then digits.
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The first telephone call is made across the continent
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The Polygraph machine aka lie detector is used for the first time.
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Dvorak receives a patent for the Dvorak keyboard.
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George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers. This device provides a foundation for digital computers.
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The first handheld two-way radio called the "Handy Talkie" is created by Motorola for the U.S. Army Signal Control.
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Chester Carlson gets patent for electric photography more commonly known today as photocopying.
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Alexander Sandy Douglas created the first graphical computer game of Tic-Tac-Toe on an EDSAC known as "OXO."
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The first IBM Selectric typewriter is released
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IBM introduces its System/360, the first of its computers to use interchangeable software and peripheral equipment.
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Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer , later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fools day.
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Microsoft buys the rights for QDOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is launched.
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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0
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Microsoft saves Apple with a $150 million investment
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RIAA sues Napster.
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Wikipedia is founded.
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Microsoft announces plans to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash.
