Computer History

By Sam the awesome gamer

  • Invention of the integrate curcuit

    The intergrated circuit was built on March 16th 1958.

  • First computer game

    The first computer game "spacewar" was invented on May 29th 1962 by a young computer programmer named Steve Russell.

  • The floppy disk

    The floppy disk was invented by Yoshiro Nakamastu on October 11th 1971

  • Invention of Email

    On Janurary 1st 1977, an American computer programmer named Ray Tomlinson invented email.

  • Usenet

    On December 1st 1979, two duke University grad students in North Carolina, Tom Tuscott and Jim Ellis had thought of hooking computers to exchange each other's information with the Unix community.

  • The first home computer

    The first home computer was invented on March 1st 1982

  • The invention of Windows

    On Janurary 1st 1996, the microsot company owner Bill Gates started to invent Windows on all operating systems.

  • The founding of google

    On March 1st 1997, Google was founded.

  • The founding of Facebook

    Facebook was founded on April 3rd 2004.

  • Facebook reaches 500 million users

    On July 22nd 2010, Facebook has reached it's 500 million users mark.