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| ARPAnet | Short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, it was created in 1969 by the US Defense Advance Research Agency |
| Charles Babbage | Created the Analytic Engine (a mechanical digital computer which, viewed with the benefit of a century and a half's hindsight, anticipated virtually every aspect of present-day computers) and the Difference Engine (Considered by many to be a direct forerunner of the modern computer, the Difference Engine was able to compute mathematical tables) |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit, the brain of the computer |
| Fiber Optics | Hollow cables that send data by pulses of light. It allows for a much faster method of data transmission because of the capability of transmitting data at the speed of light |
| Gottfried Leibniz | German philosopher and mathematician. He invented differential and integral calculus independently of Newton and proposed an optimist metaphysical theory that included the notion that we live in “the best of all possible worlds.” |
| “Herman Hollerith” | American who invented the Tabulating machine, co-founder of IBM, also invented computer punch cards |
| IBM | Short for International Business Machines. Today it is one of the most known and successful computer companies of the world. They achieved spectacular success with its tabulating machines and the punch cards that were fed them. |
| “Mark I” | Mainframe used during World War II to help with the calculations for the atomic bomb project |
| Motherboard | The main board is a printed circuit that is the foundation of a computer and allows the CPU, RAM and other computer components to fuction with each other |
| VoIP | Voice over Internet Protocol, it is an Internet protocol that enables users to make calls over the Internet |
