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1. Alan Mathison Turing
2. America Online Agrees to Buy Time Warner
3. Apple II Becomes the First Successful Preassembled Personal Computer
4. Bubble Memory Devices Are Created for Use in Computers
5. Bush Builds the First Differential Analyzer
6. CAD/CAM Revolutionizes Engineering and Manufacturing
7. Charles Babbage
8. Computers Meet Y2K with Few Glitches
9. Dow Jones Adds Microsoft and Intel
10. Eckert and Mauchly Develop the ENIAC
11. Electronic Technology Creates the Possibility of Telecommuting
12. Electronic Warfare
13. Federal Court Rules Microsoft a Monopoly
14. Federal Court Rules That Microsoft Should Be Split into Two Companies
15. First Digital High-Definition Television Signals Are Broadcast
16. The Floppy Disk Is Introduced for Storing Data Used by Computers
17. Hacker Cripples Major Web Sites and Reveals Internet Vulnerability
18. Hodgkin Solves the Structure of Penicillin
19. Hopper Invents the Computer Language COBOL
20. Hounsfield Introduces a CAT Scanner That Can See Clearly into the Body
21. IBM 370 Computer Is First Virtual Machine
22. IBM Changes Its Name and Product Line
23. IBM Completes Development of Mark I Calculator
24. IBM Introduces a Personal Computer with a Standard Hard Disk Drive
25. IBM Introduces Its Personal Computer
26. IBM Markets the Personal Computer
27. IBM Model 1401 Computers Initiate Personal Computer Age
28. The IBM Personal Computer, Using DOS, Is Introduced
29. ILOVEYOU Virus Destroys Data on Many Thousands of Computers
30. Intel Unveils 1.5 Gigahertz Microprocessor
31. The Internet Provides Easy Access to Music, Art, and Literature
32. Invention of the Transistor
33. Meteorologists Make the First Computerized Weather Prediction
34. The Microprocessor “Computer on a Chip” Is Introduced
35. Microsoft and Apple Form Partnership
36. Microsoft Releases Windows 95
37. Napster Agrees to Charge Fees for Downloading Music over Internet
38. Optical Disks for the Storage of Computer Data Are Introduced
39. Optical Disks Revolutionize Computer Data Storage
40. Retailers Begin Using High Technology to Control Shrinkage
41. Rise of the Internet
42. Ryle Constructs the First Radio Interferometer
43. Slagle Invents First Expert System, SAINT
44. Supreme Court Overturns Communications Decency Act
45. Time Magazine Makes an E-Commerce Pioneer Its Person of the Year
46. Turing Invents the Universal Turing Machine
47. UNIVAC I Becomes the First Commercial Electronic Computer and the First to Use Magnetic Tape
48. Virtual Reality Becomes Reality
49. VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Is Marketed
50. The Y2K Crisis Finally Arrives