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*Microsoft Windows released (AS GOOD AS IT GETS, EXCEPT LINUX)
 
**Significance: Microsoft enters the operating systems war, and gains domination.
 
**Significance: Microsoft enters the operating systems war, and gains domination.
 
**Location: n/a
 
**Location: n/a

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400,000,000 BC

  • Domestication of Fire
    • Significance: Fire was one of the earliest and most important technological advances, enabling our ancestors to stay warm, cook meat, scare animals, and see at night.
    • Location: Confirmed in Europe & Asia.
    • Other:

380,000 BC

  • First temporary wooden huts built
    • Significance: This is one also a major advancement because it allowed humans to escape the cold and other external challenges.
    • Location: Confirmed in France.
    • Other:

1936

  • Konrad Zuse creates the first freely programmable computer.
    • Significance: First step in the evolution of computers
    • Location: ?
    • Other:

1962

  • Space War Computer Game created by Steve Russel and MIT
    • Significance: Very beginning of the video game revolution, and a significant step in technology
    • Location: MIT
    • Other:

1981

  • MS-DOS Operating System released.
    • Significance: The base of the now widely used operating system Windows.
    • Location: n/a
    • Other:

1984

  • Apple Macintosh Computer (CRAP)
    • Significance: The first affordable operating system with a Graphical User Interface
    • Location:
    • Other:

1985

  • Microsoft Windows released (AS GOOD AS IT GETS, EXCEPT LINUX)
    • Significance: Microsoft enters the operating systems war, and gains domination.
    • Location: n/a
    • Other: