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ENIAC First Computer
ENIAC ENIAC computer first turned on. It was initially used for military purposes. -
ECC Founded
Computer History for 1940-1960 The Electronic Controls Company was founded today. The founders were the same people who helped create the ENIAC computer, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. -
EDSAC Computer makes first calculation
EDSAC Computer EDSAC Computer completes it's first calculation this date. The EDSAC Computer was also considered the first stored program electronic computer. -
First Ferranti MARK I is first comercial computer functional
linky In 1951, the First Ferranti MARKI computer was comercially available to public. It was designed up to the standards of "Professor Williams' specification". -
First Videogame Published
Spacewar "Spacewar!", the first videogame published, was released today. The game consisted of flying around a star while being pulled by gravity and shooting the enemy ship with missles. -
ARPAnet Created
ARPAnet ARPAnet was designed for military purposes. It was use as a way to protect information shared among allies. -
UNIX began being developed by Linux
LINUX History In 1969, Linux begins developing their first operating system, UNIX. It was origionally built on a format that was becoming obsolete at the time. -
Nintendo begins making video games
Nintendo Nintendo, formerly a company in charge of making playing card games, begins to make videogames. Their first game was EVR Race. -
Apple DOS Created
Apple DOS The Apple DOS was the first operating system developed by apple. It was developed by Paul Laughton, Randy Wigginton, and Steve Wozniak. -
Microsoft releases their first operating system
History of Microsoft In 1981, Microsoft releases "Microsoft dos". It was their first operating system. It introduced a new language to the public, and commands were given by typing "C:" and giving a command. The operating system also introduced the "backslash" () key. -
CERN begins working on TCP/IP
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In 1988, CERN begins working on CERNET. This was European's link to people all across the world. -
Cray Research unveils the Y-MP2E
Supar Compyootur Cray Research unveils an entry-level supercomputer, the Y-MP2E. It was being sold with a starting price of $2.2M. -
Internet Society is formed
Link In 1992 the Internet Society was formed. Their goal was to "assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". -
World does not end and computers still work
Link It was predicted that in the year 2000, computers would fail and the world would end. When the year 2000 came around, the world did not end. -
Microsoft releases Bing Search Engine
Link Microsoft launches the Bing search engine June 3, 2009.Today, Bing is also used as a search engine for Yahoo! search results as well as Facebook search results.
