Technology Innovations

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Who wrote a basic program for the Altair 8800 to allow easier user interaction?

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Bill Gates

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In 1971, the first internet connected research facilities and military bases across the United States so that they could share files. It was called:

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Arpanet

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Who invented a way to organize and link web pages together with a system of rules called hypertext transfer protocol (http) in 1989?

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Tim Berners Lee

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The three groups that had access to computers after World War II were...

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the military, corporations, and government

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In 1642 a math genius developed this machine, which used a complex system of gears that made addition or subtraction of limitless numbers possible.

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Pascaline

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Who designed the very first video game console that allowed you to make your television interactive, playing games like ping pong with a joystick?

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Ralph Baer

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This device, the earliest computer, allowed for counting, addition and subtraction using a base 10 system. Users slid beads with assigned values up and down on rods.

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Abacus

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This smart phone, developed in 2007, did away with buttons and allowed users to interact with applications using only their finger as an input device.

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iPhone

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Who developed a complex computer during World War II that could break the Enigma code and whose ideas brought us into the Digital Age?

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Alan Turing

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Any device that receives data (input), processes data, stores data, and produces a result (output).

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computer