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The Turing machine
The first ever computer engineered to combat the encriptions made by Nazi's enigma machine -
The Eniac
Consists of vaccum tubes. This first general purpose computer took the space of a huge room anda it's task was to calculate artiery firing tables -
The Modem
The early modems were used by the US Air Force in the 1950's, but the first commercial ones were made a decade later. -
The First Hard Drive
Ibm ships this hard drive for a whopping 10000$ per megabyte -
The RAMAC
Held 5mB of data and was as big as 2 refridgeratos -
Fortran
The first ever programming language using English instead or unintelligable numbers.
It was suited for numeric computation and scientific calculation. -
The Mouse
The mouse first started using a trackball, made by a team led by Rainer Mallebrein at Telefunken Konstanz.
For the GermanBundesanstalt für Flugsicherung as part of their TR 86 process computer system -
RAM
Robert H. Dennard's invention greatly increased memory density at the cost of volatility, and RAM was born. -
The Arpanet
The Arpanet was the dad of internet we all know and love. Four different computers linked up at that time, with the message "lo" rather than login as they planned due to the a not so powerful system. -
Mp944
The Mp944 was the world's first microprocessor, used on US millatry aircrafts like the F-14 -
intel 4004
The Intel 4004 was the first commercially available microprocessor made by Federico Faggin. Maximum clock rate was 740 kHz Able to directly address 640 bytes of RAM -
The Floppy Disk
The became commercially available in 1971 part of IBM products. Later on the were sold separately by Memorex and others -
{C} The Programming Language
Developped by Dennis Ritchie at the AT&T Bell Labs. It is now the most widely used languages of all time. -
Pong
Who knew a square dot and a few bars could be so exciting -
The Ethernet Cable
Developped at Xerox PARC. Ethernet data transfer rates have been increased from the original 2.94 mb/s to the latest 100 gb/s per second -
ThE Altair 8800
The first personal computer based on the intel8008 cpu, Ran on the Altair basic, 200khz to 800khz -
The Apple 2
Ran on integer BASIC, 4 to 64kB RAM, MOS6502 cpu, 5069$ in todays price -
C++
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup based on C. He added classes and a tiny bit of syntax change -
MSDOS
IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. The pair buy the rights to a simple operatin system. Manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. IBM allows the two to keep the marketing rights to the operating system, called DOS -
The IBM PC
Released Augost 12, 1981, created under the direction of Don Estridge. Popularised the term PC as personal computers. -
Commadore 64
About 12 millions units sold. Highest selling computer of all time. 64 kilobytes of ram. -
The Macintosh
The Macintosh was the first mass-market PC featuring a Graphical interface. It was however quite expensive and that hurt its abiliy to compete with the commadore and ibm -
Mac OS
The Mac OS brought the graphical interface to everyday life. It was one of the first few to use it. The originally got the idea from Xerox. -
CD-ROM
Philips and Sony combine efforts to introduce the CD-ROM, patented in 1970 by James T. Russell. -
MICROSOFT
Microsoft windows version 1.01 -
Windows 1.0
Windows 1.0 was the front end of ms-dos, it could multitask and had more graphical support -
1st Laser Printer
HP makes the first laser printer -
VGA Monitor
IBM makes the first VGA monitor with a total of 256 colors -
HTML
Not many people was involved in website creation at the time, and the language was very limiting. There really wasn't much you could do whit it, but getting some simple text onto the web -
Ps
The first photoshop had no layers but had a few selections of filters, brushes and file types. Only one undo and had no live preview. -
The world wide web
This was the first chapter of the information age. At the beginning, the whole world wide web was backed by one computer only. By November 1992, there were twenty six websites in the world -
First Laptot
Apple creates the first laptot -
Intel Pentium
It's the sucessor of the intel 486. It started from being the top of the line processor at the time. -
The Playstation 1
Sony's firts try on the home videogame console. It had a MIPS CPU. They flushed game cartridges down the drain using CD's instead. -
Microsoft Windows 95
Code named chicago, a major update from windows 3.1x, with a new redesighed gui, along with the start button. It brought more users to the internet via the preloaded internet explorer. -
DVDs Released
DVDs finally come out. No more VHS. -
BluRay Released
While invented in 2001, the weren't released until two years later. People thought they wouldn't sell. -
FAcebook is born
FAcebook is born, but it won't become popular until later. -
YouTube
YouTube is created but pretty empty still.