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The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
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The 1950s began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959. It is distinct from the decade known as the '''196th decade''' which began on January 1, 1951 and ended on December 31, 1960.
Artificial intelligence (1955), information technology (1952), and data processors (1950) had their beginnings, and terms like bootstrap (1953) and modem (1958), on-line (1950), print-out (1953), and RAM (random-access memory; 1957), Algol (1959) and FORTRAN (1956) (both early programming languages) entered the English language.
