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First programmable computer
The Z1, created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room in 1936 to 1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer. -
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The first digital computer
The ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). The ABC was an electrical computer that used vacuum tubes for digital computation including binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU -
The first electric programmable computer
The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer and was developed by Tommy Flowers and first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages. -
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator)
ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet, used 17,468 vacuum tubes, 15,000 relays, weighing almost 50 tons, uses 200 Kilowatts of electricity, and cost $500,000. While not completed until the end of the World War II, the ENIAC was created to help with the war efforts against German forces. -
The first stored program computer
The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby". -
First stored program computer
First delivered to the United States Government in 1950, the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory. -
The first PC (IBM compatible) computer
On April 7, 1953 IBM publicly introduced the 701, its first electric computer and first mass produced computer. Later IBM introduced its first personal computer called the IBM PC in 1981. The computer was code named and still sometimes referred to as the Acorn and had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, which was expandable to 256 and utilized MS-DOS. -
fisrt modem
the first Modem known as the Dataphone, which was first released by AT&T in 1960. -
hypertext
This concept was later coined by Ted Nelson in 1965 who worked for and with Andries van Dam at Brown University. Andries, with the help of Ted and other Brown University students, created a Hypertext Editing System (HES). However, the first public display of hypertext was by Douglas Engelbart on December 9, 1968 at The Mother of All Demos. -
IMP switch
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NCP
when referring to a Novell network, NCP is short for NetWare Core Protocol and is a file sharing protocol between client and server. Used with NetWare over a LAN, NetWare Core Protocol handles many requests, including those sent to the file and printing systems. -
First worm
John Shoch and Jon Hupp at Xerox PARC develop the first worm. -
Search engine
The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released on September 10, 1990 -
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Domain
On December 1, 1999 the most expensive Internet domain name business.com was sold by Marc Ostrofsky for $7.5 Million The domain was later sold on July 26, 2007 again to R.H. Donnelley for $345 Million USD. -
google chrome
On December 11, 2008 the Google Chrome.
