History of technology.
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Joseph Marie Jaquard invents a special loom.Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine.Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system.Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine.J.V. Atanasoff, attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts or shafts.Hewlett - Packard is founded.Atanasoff and his friend design a special computer.Two University of Pennsylvania professors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, build the ENIAC.Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau.William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor.Grace Hopper develops the first computer languageThe FORTRAN programming language, an acronym for FORmula TRANslationJack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuitDouglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI).A group of developers at Bell Labs produce UNIXThe newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the "floppy disk,"Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops EthernetA number of personal computers hit the marketThe January issue of Popular Electronics magazine features the Altair 8080,Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple ComputersRadio Shack's initial production run of the TRS-80 was just 3,000.Jobs and Wozniak incorporate Apple and show the Apple IIAccountants rejoice at the introduction of VisiCalcWord processing becomes a reality as MicroPro International releases WordStar.The first IBM personal computer, code-named "Acorn," is introduced.Apple's Lisa is the first personal computer with a GUI.Microsoft announces Windows, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.The first dot-com domain name is registered on March 15Compaq brings the Deskpro 386 to market.Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in GenevaThe Pentium microprocessor advances the use of graphics and music on PCsPCs become gaming machines as "Command & ConquerSergey Brin and Larry Page develop the Google search engine at Stanford University.Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple, which was struggling at the time, ending Apple's court case against MicrosoftThe term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing languageApple unveils the Mac OS X operating systemA 64-bit processor becomes available.Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet ExplorerYoutube is founded.Apple introduces the MacBook Pro,Computer functions are brought to smartphones.Microsoft launches Windows 7/.Apple unveils the iPadThe chromebook is released.Facebook gains 1 billion usersApple releases the Apple WatchThe first reprogrammable quantum computer was createdThe D.A.R.P. is deceloping Molecular Informatics.
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