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Earliest computing device
The Salamis tablet
Used as early as 300 BC in Babylon
Discovered on the island of Salamis in Greece.
The Salamis tablet is a large flat slab of marble with sets of lines for different figures. It is a counting device.
Abacus Binary System
IBM 701- invented 1951
GENIAC - invented 1955
UNIVAC II - Invented 1957
Atari 400 - Invented in 1970s
Commodore 64 - Invented 1982
Texas Instruments and Current Technology
Jack Kilby who was working at Texas Instruments in 1958 invented the integrated circuit. The circuits could be made smaller and the manufacturing process could be automated.
On March 16th in computer history....
In 2004 Microsoft enters speech recognition market
On December 6th (My Birthday) in Computer History...
Yahoo pitched an antispam initiative to the computer industry
The Internet Was Made Available to the Public...
August 6, 1991
E-Commerce began in...
1991
Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in the year 1975, it is now worth more than $299 Billion
Apples Co-Founders
Microsoft Co-Founders
Facebook Co-Founders
Twitter Co-Founders
The First Video Game
The first video game was invented by Willy Higinbotham in 1958 and was similar to the later version of Pong.
The Master Chess-Playing Computer
On May 11, 1997 the chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was defeated by the chess-playing computer called, Deep Blue.
Plankalkul and Karl Zeus
Plankalkul was a programming language, created by Karl Zeus, designed for engineering purposes.
The first computer
The first commercially used computer was the UNIVersal Automatic Computer I (UNIVAC Model I) and weighed over 29,000 pounds and power consumption was about 12,000 volt amps (12 KVA).
My Favorite Website
My favorite website is YouTube. It was founded in February of 2005 by 3 former employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The purpose of this website is to share videos with the world whether it be tv shows, movies, home videos, blogs, etc. There is no shop or 'buy now' feature, but the site makes tons of money from advertisements all over the home page and on videos.