Computer History Timeline

Period: Jan 1, 1958 to Dec 31, 1958

Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit
Period: Jan 1, 1964 to Dec 31, 1964

BASIC programming language
Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Dec 31, 1969

Arpanet created
Period: Jan 1, 1975 to Dec 31, 1975

Atair 8800
Period: Jan 1, 1975 to Dec 31, 1975

Microsoft founded
Period: Jan 1, 1976 to Dec 31, 1976

Apple 1 created
Period: Jan 1, 1978 to Dec 31, 1978

Visicalc spreadsheet program
Period: Jan 1, 1979 to Dec 31, 1979

WordStar wordprocessor
Period: Jan 1, 1982 to Dec 31, 1982

there are about 200 computers on the internet
Period: Jan 1, 1984 to Dec 31, 1984

Macintosh introduced
May 9, 1987

Patrick Tatro born
Period: Jan 1, 1993 to Dec 31, 1993

Mosaic introduced
Period: Jan 1, 1994 to Dec 31, 1994

there are about 3,000,000 computers on the internet
Period: Jan 1, 1998 to Dec 31, 1998

there are about 36,000,000 computers on the internet

Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit