Progress in the Information Age

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Abacus (5000 B.C. to present)

Other mechanical devices

First generation of computers (1951)

First business computer (1954)

Second generation of computers (1959)

Third generation of computers (1965)

Development of personal computers

Advanced programming language applications

The future?

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