jan 1, 3000 BC - First computing device invented

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The abacus was the first computing device, allegedly created in Iraq, (formerly Babylonia) roughly 4500-5000 years ago

This continued to be the inspiration for many millenia of technological innovation, this was the first instance of a device that could display computational information, which gave so much potential to the idea of the computing device.

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