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The first computing machine directly related to the present was created in 1801 by Joseph Marie Jacquard who implemented the idea into a weaving loom.

In 1812, Charles Babbage designed a mechanical "difference engine" that was built after his death and found to be accurate. His original intent was to correct and improve French logarithm tables produced by hand.

Computing machines were improved throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. The first digital computer was built by John Atanasoff in 1930, and is referred to as the Atanasoff-Berry computer (referencing co-developer Clifford Berry).

The production and mass marketing of computers and their programs was most developed by a man named Bill Gates, who became one of the richest men on Earth because of his innovative ideas. Gates and competitor Steven Jobs were responsible for bringing the "personal computer" into widespread use.

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