Computer History Museum

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Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

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Apple's Lisa pioneers the mouse-driven personal computer

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Atari released Pong, helping launch the video game industry

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Charles Babbage, father of the computer, was born

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A computer beats the world chess champion

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Gordon Moore published the observation that became Moore's Law

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Herman Hollerith patents the punched-card tabulating machine

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IBM launched its first personal computer

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IBM's Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov

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Microsoft shipped the first version of Windows

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Microsoft went public

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The chip-maker Intel was founded

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The first commercial adding machine was patented

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The first permanent ARPANET link, the internet's ancestor, went live

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The first stored-program computer ran its first software

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The transistor was first demonstrated at Bell Labs

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The world's first cash machine opened for business in London

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The transistor — the device that built the modern world — debuted in 1947

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The first computer "bug" was a real moth

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Moore's Law: a 1965 magazine prediction that ran the digital age

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