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First Mass Produced Computer
IBM introduces the 701 to the public April 7, 1953. The 701 is IBM's first electric computer and first mass produced computer.
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First Minicomputer
Digital Equipment Company's first successful minicomputer, the PDP-8 is introduced. The computer sold for $18,000 and over 50,000 are sold.
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First Message Sent
Charley Kline a UCLA student tries to send "login", the first message over ARPANET at 10:30 p.m on October 29, 1969. The system transmitted "l" and then "o" but then crashed making today the first day a message was sent over the Internet and the first network crash
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First Portable Computer
The IBM 5100 becomes the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM.
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First Color Computers
On January 3, Hewlett Packard introduces its HP-85. A microcomputer with 16kB of RAM and a 5-inch CRT display.
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Notebook Computers
IBM announces the PCjr (PC junior) computer November 1, 1983.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is launched to the public August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the European Partial Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland develops the Web as a research tool.
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First Smartphone
RIM releases the Blackberry January 19, 1999.
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Ipod
Apple introduces the iPod and it goes on sell October 23, 2001.
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Iphone
Apple introduces the iPhone to the public at the January 9, 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo.
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E-Reader
The first Barnes & Noble Nook is released November 30, 2009. -
