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The Complex Number Calculator
The Complex Number Calculator is finished. In 1940, a man named Stibitz demonstrated the CNC at an American Mathematical Society conference held at Dartmouth College. Stibitz amazed the group by performing calculations remotely on the CNC using a Teletype connected via special telephone lines. -
ERA 1101 is built.
Engineering Research Associates of Minneapolis built the ERA 1101, the first commercially produced computer. It held 1 million bits on its magnetic drum. -
IBM with a large market share.
IBM had an 81.2 percent share of the computer market. In this year it introduced the 1400 Series. The 1401 mainframe, replaced the vacuum tube with smaller, more reliable transistors and used a magnetic core memory. -
ARPANET started.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was one of the world's first operational packet switching networks. -
HP-35 announced.
Hewlett-Packard announced the HP-35.The HP-35 distinguished itself from other calculators by its ability to perform a large variety of logarithmic and trigonometric functions, to store more intermediate solutions for later use, and to accept and display entries in a form similar to standard scientific notation. -
First portable computer.
Adam Osborne completed the first portable computer, the Osborne I. The machine featured a 5-inch display, 64 kilobytes of memory, a modem, and two 5 1/4-inch floppy disk drives. -
First website.
Tim Berners-Lee successfully sets up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990. -
End of the world.
Computers continue to work and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000 as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug. -
Pocket PC
Microsoft Pocket PC 2000 is introduced April 19, 2000. -
Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is introduced March 19, 2009. -
Space internet.
The first live Internet link into low earth orbit was established on January 22, 2010 when astronaut T. J. Creamer posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account from the International Space Station, marking the extension of the Internet into space. -
iPad
Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010. -
All-robotic surgery.
First all-robotic surgery performed at Montreal General Hospital October 13, 2010. -
Apple overtakes Exxon
Apple overtakes Exxon to become the world’s most valuable company on August 10, 2011. -
iOS7
Apple introduces iOS7 on September 18, 2013.
