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Alan Turing Born
Alan Turing was influencial in designing the code which was the basis for the personal computer. Teuscher, Christof, ed. Alan Turing: Life and legacy of a great thinker. Springer, 2004. -
IBM Computer
IBM made advanced technological changes throughout the 1950's and became one of the most used computers. Queen, Cary, and Laurence Jay Korn. "A comprehensive sequence analysis program for the IBM personal computer." Nucleic acids research 12.1Part2 (1984): 581-599. -
Moore's Laws
Gordon Moore predicts: The capacity of the microchip doubles every 2 years And... The raising cost limits technologies development. Schaller, Robert R. "Moore's law: past, present and future." Spectrum, IEEE 34.6 (1997): 52-59. -
Xerox
Xerox creates major advances in the computer design such as: GUI: Graphic User Interface The mouse Dino, Richard N., Donald E. Riley, and Pan G. Yatrakis. "The role of forecasting in corporate strategy: the Xerox experience." Journal of Forecasting 1.4 (1982): 335-348. The pull-down menu -
Microsoft IBM
Bill gates agrees to make an operating system for IBM (DOS). Porac, Joseph F. "Local rationality, global blunders, and the boundaries of technological choice: lessons from IBM and DOS." Technological innovation: oversights and foresights (1997): 129-146. -
Microsoft Dominating Software
Microsoft dominating PC software. No worldwide web. Zacks, Martin. "Microsoft vs the world." (1998): 7-7. -
Rise of Web, Social Media & Smartphones
2000's and beyond: The internet becomes a major part of society. Social Media rises in the forms of: Myspace, Facebook, Twitter
etc.. Kaplan, Andreas M., and Michael Haenlein. "Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media." Business horizons 53.1 (2010): 59-68. Smartphones start to dominate.
