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Its about time
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GavinAncheta
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Gavin Ancheta
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20 Sep 2017
Events
started high school
started middle school
first day ever of school
date of birth
first gaming console/ wii
won football championship
first phone
world trade center is completed
ESPN starts broadcasting
First launch into space
Martin Luther King Day
Mae Jemison is the first African-american woman in space
Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design and build the first electronic digital computer
Colossus, an electronic computer created for the military to break German codes
More than 200 programming languages have been created
Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments invents the integrated circuit, which lays the foundation for high-speed computers and large-capacity memory
Dr. John Kemeny of Dartmouth leads the development of the BASIC programming language
Edsger Dijkstra introduces the concept of structured programming, developing standards for constructing computer programs
The number of computers has grown to 18,000. Third-generation computers, with their controlling circuitry stored on chips, are introduced.
Alan Shugart at IBM demonstrates the first regular use of an 8-inch floppy disk
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak build the first Apple computer
The first computer virus, Elk Cloner, is spread via Apple II floppy disks, which contained the operating system
