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Invention of ENIAC
The ENIAC was a secret World War 2 project by John Mauchly, at Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. This was the first electrical computer ever made, it was made for military uses like ballistic calculations. USHistory.Org -
First Video Game invented
William Higinbotham created the first video game, it wasn't very complicated at all, it was just a simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s hit, Pong. It had moving graphics on an oscilloscope.(electronic test instrument that allows you to observe signals as a function of time) Aps,org
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Creation of the ARPANET
The ARPANET was created during the Cold War. It was also the first network that used the TCP/IP protocol. Wikipedia -
Intel releases 1103
Intel, a newly formed company at the time. released the Intel 1103, a Dynamic Random Access Memory chip. It was a small and low price memory chip, making it replace a lot of the chips in use at the time. Although being released in 1970, is was not really available to the public until 1971
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First game console
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first gaming console, released in 1972, it was a new way to play games, you could take it home and hook it up to your tv. Older videogames had to be played on vector displays, not analog tvs.
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Steve Wozniak completes Apple-1
The apple-1 is a single board computer. It was a personal computer and sold for almost $700 when it came out! Wikipedia -
Deskpro 386 system
This computer was the first computer to use Intel's 80386 chip, it was a 32 bit microchip. This computer brought the introduction of 32 bit architecture, a huge improvement over the 16 bit they had been previously using. Computer History -
World Wide Web is created
The WWW, is an informational space where web resources are identified by URLs, The WWW was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. The WWW was the center of the development of the information age. Wikipedia -
IBM 9345 hard disk drive released
Codenamed "Sawmill," it had magneto-resistive heads and it was the first of its kind to do so. This made the bits be able to be stored more densely. Computerhistory.org -
Wi-Fi is invented
WiFi is a technology that allows you to wirelessly connect to a LAN network. Wi-Fi made connecting to the internet and playing online games a whole lot easier and a way less expensive. -
Online Ads
Online ads started the commercial web, or using the web to advertise a product or good. Since not being able to charge by the minute like they used to, they had to think outside the box. O'Reilly pioneered a global network navigator web portal that ran online ads. Computer History -
Xbox released in North America
The very first Xbox was a very big deal when it was released, it really modernized the gaming that we know of today and changed the course of the games released after it. A lot of new and better games had the capability to be made now that a better engine had been made. Wikipedia -
World of Warcraft released
World of Warcraft was a huge breakthrough for the MMORPG games and for computer games in general. It is the world's most popular MMORPG game ever released and has been since throughout most of its release. Wikipedia -
Wii Released
The Wii is a seventh-generation console, and was relatively different with the way you controlled the remote, it was a laser type of controller. It had one of the world's most sold copies of a game in history (Wii Sports) that sold over 100 million copies!!! Wii-kipedia -
Apple releases first iPhone
The iPhone was the first smartphone made by apple, and it had quad-band GSM celllular connectivity. It was the first phone apple had made to remove physical keyboard component. Wikipedia
