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Oct 11, 1206
First Programmable Automata built by medieval scientist Al-Jazari
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Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wodden cards to automatically weave fabric designs in France
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English mathematician, CHarles babbage, makes a steam-driven calculating machin that can put computer tables of numbers
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Alan Turing creates a unicersal machine, later called the Turing machine. Can compute anything computable
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Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneaously. First time a computer can store information in its memory.
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John Machly and J. Presper Eckert build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator and will be considered the grandfather of digital computers.
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William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor
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Grace Hopper makes the first computer language.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a protoype of a modern computer, with a mouse and graphical user interface.
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People of Bell Labs produce UNIX, a operating system that addressed compatibiliy issues.
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First Dynamic Acces Memory chip.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers
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Personal computers hit the market.
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First dot-com domain name is registered.
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Microsoft announces windows
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Graphics and music were added onto PCs
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PCs become gaming machines.
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IPhone brings computer functions into smartphones