Computer History - Timeline

Bell Labs is created by Alexander Graham Bell in order to progress in industrial research and science.

Konrad Zuse creates one of the first electromechanical relay computers the Z2. It used electrical switches to drive mechanical relays to preform calculations

Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer with 2000 relays, implementing a 22 bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz.Data could be stored in 64 words of memory or supplied from the keyboard. It was similar to modern machines in some respects, with numerous advances such as floating point numbers. Rather than the decimal system, using a binary system meant that Zuse's machines wer

Digital computers start to make analog devices obsolete due to a decrease in cost and availability

Computers were advanced to break codes that opposing sides sent during world war two

Magnetic core memory gained popularity until a core of semiconductors was invented

The first computer game was created opening the use of computers to more than just science and war

Intel, one of the major computer contributors, is founded increasing the strides in making computers more powerful and faster

The first laptop is created allowing for a mobile computer that you can take around with you

Windows 1.0 is introduced by Microsoft bringing a new operating system into the world

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the apple II which is a new affordable home computer for the masses