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Microchip
Source The first recorded idea of the microchip was 'invented' by Werner Jacobi who filed a patent for a semiconductor amplifying device. However, Jack Kilby was the one who actually made the first working microchip through Texas Instruments. He won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention. -
Rice Institute Computer
Source The Rice Institute Computer was the primary operating computer for Rice University until it was decommisioned in 1971. The University of Oklahoma built a copy of the Rice Institute Computer and called it the OSAGE. -
COBOL
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COBOL is the very first programming language created. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. COBOL is a programming language used for business and finance systems. COBOL is still widely used by businesses. -
Atlas
SourceThe Atlas computer was officially commisioned in 1962 at Manchester University. The Atlas was one of the world's first supercomputer, and was regarded as the most powerdul computer in Europe at the time. Atlas is "considered by many to be the first recognisable modern operating sytem." -
Arpanet- First Internet Invented
SourceThe Arpanet was the first network and was developed by US Department of Defense. It was used for military purposes, not commercial. -
Floppy Disk
Source A floppy disk is a flexible plastic disk that works similarly to a casette tape. The disk itself is a circle of magnetic material that stores information. The first floppy disk held a whopping 100 KBs! -
WLAN
Source A team led by Norman Abramson through the University of Hawaii engineered the first '"packet-switched" radio communications' network. They called it "Alohanet," and it was the first wireless network (WLAN). -
C
Source The programming language C was based off a previous language, B. C is a low level, general use language. C also has many spinoffs, like C+, C++, Perl, and more. -
Apple Computers- Apple I
Source Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple ComputersTM on April Fools Day 1976 and begin selling the Apple Computer I. The Apple I was the first computer with a single circuit board. -
Apple BASIC
Source Apple BASIC. or Integer BASIC, was created by Steve Wozniak in 1977. Steve Wozniak made this language "primarily for games and educational uses." Integer BASIC was the interpreter language for the Apple I and Apple II computers. -
First Dot-com Domain
Source The very first dot-com domain name was registered years before the World Wide Web actually began. The first dot-com was registered by Symbolics Computer Company, a computer manufacturing company. -
Python
Source The programming language Python was named for Monty Phyton. Python is a general purpose, high level programming language used in popular online services like Google and Spotify. -
Geocities
Source Geocities is a hosting service generally recognized as the first real social media site. Before Geocities was shut down in 2009, there were appoximatly 40 million user pages. -
iPhone
Source The first iPhone comes out. The iPhone transforms smartphones by bringing the utility of a traditional computer to the versatility of a phone -
Go
SourceGo, or Golang, is a programming language developed by Google. Go is commonly confused with another programming language, Go! This language, while developed in 2007, was only publicly introduced in November 2009. Go is currently being used as the main language in a few of Google's production systems.
