Its about time
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Updated: 20 Sep 2017
Gavin Ancheta
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started high schoolstarted middle schoolfirst day ever of schooldate of birthfirst gaming console/ wiiwon football championshipfirst phoneworld trade center is completedESPN starts broadcastingFirst launch into spaceMartin Luther King DayMae Jemison is the first African-american woman in spaceDr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford
Berry design and build the first electronic
digital computerColossus, an electronic
computer created for the military to break
German codesMore than 200 programming
languages have been createdJack Kilby of Texas Instruments invents
the integrated circuit, which lays the foundation
for high-speed computers and large-capacity memoryDr. John Kemeny of Dartmouth
leads the development of the BASIC
programming languageEdsger Dijkstra introduces the concept
of structured programming, developing
standards for constructing computer
programsThe 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 diskSteve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak build the first Apple
computerThe first computer
virus, Elk Cloner, is spread via
Apple II floppy disks, which
contained the operating
system
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