Assignment 4-History of Technology

By hitide5
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  • The First Wireless Signal

    The First Wireless Signal
    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi became the first man to send a wireless signal. The original transmission he sent was only about a mile and a half , but that transmission would pave the way for all kinds of technology leading up to today.

  • The First Programmable Computer (Calculator)

    The First Programmable Computer (Calculator)
    German Konrad Zuse built Z1 in his parents living room. Its considered the first binary programmable computer. The Z1 was completed in 1941.

  • The First Storing Computers

    The First Storing Computers
    The UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered to be the first computers capable of storing and running programs with memory. It was delivered to the US in 1950. It was developed by Remington Rand.

  • The First RAM Chip

    The First RAM Chip
    Intel introduced the first RAM chip in 1970 with only 1k RAM.That same year Intel introduced an 8 bit microprocessor called 4004.

  • Microsoft is Born

    Microsoft is Born
    Bill Gates and friend Paul Allen form "Traf-O-Data" in 1971.The company was built to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. Together they developed BASIC for the Altair 8808 and Microsoft was born.

  • SQL

    SQL
    Donald Chamber developed SQL in 2011. It is a high level language used to manage data.

  • Apple

    Apple
    Two college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak created the Apple 1 with a vision of people having their own individual computers at their homes. Little did the know they would go on create one of the biggest technological companies the world ever seen.

  • The First PC

    The First PC
    A man by the name of Jonathan A. Thomas designed "Mark 8"(the PC) according to a paper in July of 1974. IBM approached Microsoft about developing BASIC for their PC's. Those BASIC oriented IBM PC's were released August 1981.

  • Python

    Python
    Its a high level programming language developed by a man named Guiddo van Rossum in 1989. Its purpose was to read codes.

  • Ruby

    Ruby
    Ruby was developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in the mid 1990s. It was a high level language with a general.(very ahead of its time)

  • PHP

    PHP
    Php was developed by Rasmus Ledford in 1994. Its is a scripting language used for web server development.

  • Java

    Java
    Java was developed by James Gosling in 1995. It's a microsystem language that creates applications.

  • Scala

    Scala
    Scala was developed by Martin Odersky in 2003. It's a mid level language that expresses common programming patterns.