computer history By tigh22 Jan 1, 1868 the first typewriter was created by Latham Christopher Sholes idea finder Jan 1, 1878 "QWERTY" keyboard invented idea finder Jan 1, 1943 colossus used in WWI to aid the military is reading encrypted German messages wikipedia Jan 1, 1947 patent was filed ENIAC prezi Jan 1, 1951 UNIVAC created in to assist the government with performing the census cnn Jan 1, 1952 Univac predicts winner of 1952 election wikipedia Jan 1, 1956 transistor effect won the Nobel Prize for Physics and sparked a flurry of research in electronics nobel prize Jan 1, 1958 Jack kilby began research on the integrated circuit wikipedia Jan 1, 1962 Steve Russell invented space war inventors Jan 1, 1964 mouse invented out of a block of wood, a circuit board, and two metal wheels prezi Jan 1, 1969 Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) invented wikipedia Jan 1, 1971 Microprocessor invented by intel wikipedia Jan 1, 1971 Ray Tomlinson emails himself ask Mar 24, 1971 creeper created as lab test wsj Jan 24, 1976 Steve Jobs invents first apple computer wikipedia Jan 1, 1979 Seymour Rubenstein and Rob Barnaby create wordstar inventors Jan 1, 1981 IBM 5150 released [wikipedea](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer) Apr 3, 1981 Osborne 1 cost $1,795 wikipedia Jan 1, 1982 Time magazine named the computer as the “Machine of the Year” time Jan 1, 1982 Scott Fahlman invented the sideways smile emotion sherv Jan 1, 1983 Apple Lisa is first home computer with a graphical user interface inventors Jan 1, 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents world wide web wikipedia Jan 1, 1998 Google incorporated as backrub wikipedia Jan 1, 2002 first smartphone capable of receiving e-mail and accessing the Internet wikipedia Apr 3, 2010 first ipad released wikipedia