Computing Timeline

By cameronl19

  • Complex Number Calculator

    Bell Telephone Laboratories created the calculator that was invented by George Stibitz. This is the first instance of remote access computing.

  • ERA 1101 Publicly Available

    The first commercial computer is created. The first people to use it was the United States Navy. It could store one million bits on its drum.

  • IBM

    The first computer machine was created by the International Business Machine.

  • Direct Keyboards

    MIT researchers inserted the first direct keyboard input into the computer. Before they put programs into computers by feeding them into the computer on punched card or paper tape.

  • Computer Chip

    The integrated circuit is invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

  • Video Games

    The first video game is created by Spacewar.

  • The Mouse

    The first computer mouse was created by Douglas Engelbart

  • Personal Computers

    The first personal computers were put in place by IBM and Apple

  • Internet

    The World Wide Web is created by Tim Berners Less. This gives everyone access to the internet.

  • Mini computers

    Nokia created a telephone that had access to the internet. This gave way to smart phones as we know them.