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2. PERSONAL COMPUTER The Programma 101 was the first commercial "desktop personal computer", produced by the Italian company Olivetti and invented by the Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto, inventor of the magnetic card system. The project started in 1962. It was launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and volume production began in 1965, the computer retailing for $3,200. Before the Programma 101, computers were as large as trucks and used only by trained specialists, but Programma 101 was the size of a typewriter and accessible to all. In this Jan. 24, 1984, file photo, Steve Jobs, chairman of the board of Apple Computer, leans on the new "Macintosh" personal computer following a shareholder's meeting in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Sandra Richter, who helped design a bench that allows people to charge their phones, sits with President Obama during his meeting with entrepreneurs and inventors at White House on Wednesday during the Maker Faire. (Associated Press)

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This screen shot shows movies and television programs available for free to Amazon Prime members. Amazon changed the dynamics in 2011 when it started offering movies and TV shows to Prime members for free. Unlike Netflix, Amazon offers only part of its collection for free. (AP Photo/Amazon.com)

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welcome: Monica Crowley will oversee online opinion section for The Washington Times.

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This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with truckloads of captured Iraqi soldiers after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

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Cleveland police are investigating a possible hate crime after a 13-year-old black girl viciously attacked a 10-year-old white girl while allegedly shouting racial slurs. The beating was captured on video by a cell phone camera and posted to YouTube. (WOIO)

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In this May 19, 2014 photo, Anthony Wood, CEO of Roku, poses for a portrait at the company's headquarters in Saratoga, Calif. While Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gets marquee billing for building an Internet video service with 48 million worldwide subscribers, Wood has quietly worked behind the scenes making Roku streaming devices that make it easier and more enjoyable to watch Netflix’s vast library of movies and TV shows. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)