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The Abacus
An abacus is a very old tool used for arithmetic. It is still used in some parts of the world. Sometimes blind people will use an abacus, because they can feel the numbers easily. The most common abacuses work by moving beads on rods. The first reported and substantiated use of an abacus, or abacus-like instrument was in Sumeria between 2700 and 2300BCE or roughly 4700 years ago. -
Babbage Machine
Charles Babbage 1791-1871 a computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Machine was completed in London in 2002, -
The Telephone
The first telephone (originally called the Photophone) was made in 1880 by a Scottish teacher, scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell, he invented the telephone to make phone calls to others without having to write a letter or go directly to their homes.This device has developed the use of mobile phones and later, into smartphones. It has insipred us of what we have today such as an iPhone, a phone with many features, not just the calling system. -
HP
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP (styled as lower case on its official logo) is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. -
The ENIAC
In February, the public got its first glimpse of the ENIAC, a machine built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert that improved by 1,000 times on the speed of its contemporaries. It started in 1943 and was completed in 1946. It was programmed using plug boards and switches. It did 5000 operarions per second. It takes up 1000 square feet. -
IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer
The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer was one of the first personal computers, in the sense of a computer to be used by one person whose previous experience with computing might only have been with desk calculators. It was controlled interactively by a keyboard. The principal designer of this machine was John Lentz, as part of his work for the Watson Lab at Columbia University. The IBM 610 was introduced in 1957. -
Kilby Intergrated Circuit
Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments to prove that resistors and capacitors could exist on the same piece of semiconductor material. His circuit consisted of a sliver of germanium with five components linked by wires. -
First Video Game
The first video game was made in 18th October, 1958, called Tennis-For-Two. It was made by William Higinbotham, an american physicist. It is named in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display. The aim of the game was to hit the ball over the middle line to the other side so the other player can hit it back. If the ball ends up colliding with the middle line then you lose a point. -
Microsoft Corporation
Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft Corporation is an american multinational corporation established and structured in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer. -
Apple.Inc
Apple is a multinational company founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 that makes computer hardware, computer software, and portable devices like mobile telephones and music players. Apple calls its computers Macintoshes or Macs, and it calls its laptops MacBooks. Their popular selling points for music players, smartphones and tablets are the iPod, iPhone and iPad Apple Inc. used to be called Apple Computer, Inc. -
IBM Simon
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator was a handheld, touchscreen cellular phone and PDA designed and engineered by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). It had amassed an incredible selling of 50,000 units. The Simon Personal Communicator was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one device. It was released on the 16th August 1994. -
Google
Google is a search engine developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University on September 4th, 1998. By far, Google is the most used search engine in the world. By 2012, Google has made over 50 billion US dollars because of it's success rate from users. -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website started in February 2004. The founder was Mark Zuckerberg. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users. Users may make a personal profile, add other users as friends, and send messages. Facebook users must register before using the site. -
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass. -
E-mail
Electronic mail or E-mail is an Internet service that allows those people who have an e-mail address to send and receive electronic letters. Those are much like postal letters, except that they are delivered much faster than written mail when sending over long distances, and are usually free.
Like with regular mail, users may get a lot of unwanted mail. With e-mail, this is called spam. Some programs used for sending and receiving mail can detect spam and filter it out nearly completely.
