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Computer history

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  • Difference engine

    Difference engine
    The difference engine was the first mechanical calculator and was creaated by a English gentleman called Charles Babbage. It was able to compute several sets of numbers and make hard copies of them.
  • Analytical engine engine

    Analytical engine engine
    The analytical engine engine had Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), integrated memory control, punch cards, and basic flow. It is the first geneal computer concept. However due to funding issues it was never built while Charles Babbage was alive. Luckily Henry babbage Charles youngest son was able to complete the analytical engine engine.
  • Havard mark I

    Havard mark I
    The Havard mark I was presented in Havard university 1944. It is a large programmable-controlled calculating machine, which provided importent calculations for the U.S navy. Grace Hopper was it's programmer.
  • First digital computer

    First digital computer
    In Japan a man called Hideo Yamachito created the first digital computer. This allowed more data to be read more easily.
  • e-mail

    e-mail
    The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. By 1996, more electronic mail was being sent than postal mail.
  • First video game

    First video game
    Pong the first video game is released. This made computers alot more populer.
  • portable computer IBM 5100

    portable computer  IBM 5100
    The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer released in 1975. It had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. It weighed 55 pounds.
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Bill gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft.
  • First computer language used

    First computer language used
    Bill Gates and Paul Allen write the worlds first computer languge program for personal computers. A form of BASIC designed for the Altair.
  • Apple

    Apple
    Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple.It contained a 6502 8-bit processor and 4 kb of memory, which was expandable to 8 or 48 kb using expansion cards. later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fools day.
  • HTML

    HTML
    Created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, short for hypertext markup language. It is a language used to create electronic documents, especially pages on the World Wide Web. Without HTML a browser would not know how to format a page and would only display plain text with no formatting that contained no links.
  • World wide web

    World wide web
    The world wibe web was launched on 1991. Information can now be passed around the world in less than seconds. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist develops the Web as a research tool.
  • internet explorer

    internet explorer
    Microsoft internet explorer was first introduced in 1995 as internet explorer 1.0.
  • Google

    Google
    Google is created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube is created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is is a popular video sharing service that allows anyone to post any appropriate video or vlog
  • iphone

    iphone
    Apple anounces iphone a smartphone that works like as an iPod, camera phone, PDA, and has WiFi access that can be used to access and browse the Internet using its widescreen display.