Its about time - Timeline

started high school

started middle school

first day ever of school

date of birth

first gaming console/ wii

won football championship

first phone

world trade center is completed

ESPN starts broadcasting

First launch into space

Martin Luther King Day

Mae Jemison is the first African-american woman in space

Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design and build the first electronic digital computer

Colossus, an electronic computer created for the military to break German codes

More than 200 programming languages have been created

Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments invents the integrated circuit, which lays the foundation for high-speed computers and large-capacity memory

Dr. John Kemeny of Dartmouth leads the development of the BASIC programming language

Edsger Dijkstra introduces the concept of structured programming, developing standards for constructing computer programs

The number of computers has grown to 18,000. Third-generation computers, with their controlling circuitry stored on chips, are introduced.

Alan Shugart at IBM demonstrates the first regular use of an 8-inch floppy disk

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak build the first Apple computer

The first computer virus, Elk Cloner, is spread via Apple II floppy disks, which contained the operating system