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History of Computing
1930's - 2000's
Created by
Aren Hassan
⟶ Updated 24 Sep 2017 ⟶
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Events
Telex Messaging Network comes online
World Brains
Model K
Elektro and Sparko
Konrad Zuse Finishes the Z3 Computer
The Three Laws of Robotics
The First Bombe was Completed
A Logical Calculas of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity
Bell Labs Relay Interpolator is completed
Curt Herzstark designs Curta calculator
Project Whirlwind Begins
John von Neumann writes First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
First actual case of bug being found
Manchester Mark I Williams-Kilburn Tube
Birth of the Modem
EDSAC
Magnetic Core Memory
The Complex Number Calculator (CNC)
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
First ColossusOperational at Bletchley Park
Harvard Mark 1
Public Unveiling of Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC)
First Computer Program to run on a Computer
Turing Test
The Pilot Ace Computer became Operational
UNIVAC
Whirlwind
First Business online - Lyons Electronic Office
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CSIRAC - first computer to be used as a musical instrument
100 Computers in the world
FORTRAN - first ever programming language to be created
The NORC delivered to US Navy
Steve Jobs is born
MIT introduce the Whirlwind machine
Tim Berners-Lee is born
Bill Gates is born
The ENIAC was turned off for the last time
Possibility of keyboards were investigated
The Librascope GP-30 - Earliest personal computer
MIT researchers developed the TX-0
RAMAC was also developed
First computer scanned image made.
Casio - releasing the world's first electronic calculator
John von Neumann dies
Digital phone lines came into use
LG Electronics are founded
Integrated circuit is successfully demonstrated
William Higinbotham creates the second ever "videogame"
COBOL is released
Richard Brodie is born
COBOL was made
Quicksort was made
Timesharing- the first online communities
The idea of Virtual Memory
Atlas computer debuts
The First Robotic Arm
Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny create BASIC
AlphaVille was released
Simula was Developed and Released
DENDRAL
First 16-bit model
Carterfone
The Brown Box
ELIZA
HP released their first computer
People's view on the potential of technology changed
The IBM 1360 was created
LOGO
"A Space Odyssey"
CICS
The IBM Minnow
NLS System was created
Read-Only Rope Memory was introduced
Unix was created
Victor Scheinman’s Stanford Arm
PASCAL
Pong
C - programming language
UNIX
Micral N
TCP/IP
Ethernet
Cray-1
Hard Disk Drive
3.5 inch Floppy Disk
MS DOS
IBM'S PC
Film Animated Scenes
Comordor 64
Road to Point Reyes
MS Word
CD ROM
Flash Memory
Apple MAC
C++
The NES is released in America
Michael Dell
Steve Jobs is forced out of Apple
Pixar Founded
SCSI-1 was introduced
The hacker manifesto is published
The Erlang and Oberon programming languages are released
Connor CP340A hard disk drive was released
GSM standard is formally agreed
Perl was written by Larry Wall
The GIF standard was introduced by CompuServe
Tin Toy
Steve jobs releases the NeXT Cube
Sound Blaster
The Macintosh portable is released
The Game Boy Girl
First internet Provider
First person charged for computer fraud and misuse
Intel brought out the 80486 microprocessor
Opportunity and Spirit Mars Rovers
NASA Ames Research Centre Supercomputer Columbia
Nintendo Wii comes out
First Camera Phone Introduced
USB Flash Drive
Y2K Bug
Bit Torrent Launched
Mac OS X released
DARPA's Centibots project
Earth Simulator
Blu-ray
Hitachi Deskstar 7k100
Nvida releases CUDA GPU
Scratch Released
Apple iPhone
Cloud based network attached storage solutions