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A History of Computers
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500 BC: The abacus
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Not a whole lot… The Roman Empire, Jesus, King Arthur, the Dark Ages, The Renaissance, Christopher Colombus, Galileo, Coppernicus, The American Revolution, The French Revolution, a lot of other Revolutions, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah
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1837: The Analytical Engine
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Charles Babbage
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Ada Lovelace
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Not a whole lot… The car is invented, World War I, my grandma is born, The Great Depression, The invention of the movie, the Russian Revolution, probably some more Revolutions somewhere, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah
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1899 "Everything that can be invented has already been invented." Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office
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Computers and the Military
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1946: The first electronic computer ENIAC
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1943-1959: The 1 st generation vacuum tubes and punch cards
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1943 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.“ Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM.
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1959-1964: 2 nd generation The Transistor and the circuit board
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The computer monitor
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1962: The First Computer Game
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1964-1972: 3 rd generation The integrated circuit
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1968: Douglas Englebart invents the mouse
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1969: ARPANET is started ancestor to the Internet
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1972 – present: 4 th generation (Very) Large Scale Integration
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1977 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
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The next 20 years The Personal Computer The Internet gets popular –E-Mail –World Wide Web –Instant Messaging (AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc)
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