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Feb 4, 1000
Abacus was Invented 2700 BC
The Abucus was first used by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia and it was the as the first true place-value system. The Sumerians was the first civilization in history dating back to 2700BC. -
Difference Machine
First type of calculator to do complex problems. It was invented by Chareles Babbage who had failed many times from this idea of calculating complicated arthimetic faster. -
The Complex Number Calculator
First example of remote access computing. It was designed by George Stibitz and he stunned a the Darthmouth Mathematics society by doing caluclations from a terminal that was made over special telephone lines. -
First Computer Program to Run on a Computer
The Small-Scale Expieremental Machine was created by Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill. This was called the Z1. -
The Colossus
This was the first electronic digital computer and it was all programmable. It was used in WW2. -
ENIAC was created
Started in 1943, the ENIAC computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. It is over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer. ENIAC used plugboards and switches for programming, -
Mark I Tube
At Manchester University, Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn develop the Williams-Kilburn tube. Information was read by a metal pickup plate that would detect a change in electrical charge to pick up memory. -
Birth of the Modem
Computers “talk” over ordinary voice phone lines through modems. Developed in 1949 for transmitting radar signals by Jack Harrington’s group at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC) near Boston, the modem modulates digital data into sounds, and demodulates received sounds into digital data. -
EDSAC
The first practical stored-program computer, EDSAC is built at Cambridge University using vacuum tubes and mercury delay lines for memory. -
SEAC
The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) is the first stored-program computer completed in the United States. -
Keyboard Input
MIT created the keyboard to be inputted in the computer for easier use. This then made it a basis for every computer today. -
ERA 1011
One of the first commercially produced computers, the company´s first customer was the US Navy. -
Computer Mouse
Douglas C. Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1964 — two decades before it would ship with the first Apple Macintosh. -
IBM compute to use semi-conductor memory
n a departure from using magnetic core memory technology, IBM introduces the System 370 Model 145 mainframe computer, the company's first all-semiconductor memory computer. -
Smartphone created
The first concepts that eventually led to the invention of the smartphone date back to the 1970s. It was not however until 1992 that IBM came up with a prototype mobile phone that incorporated PDA features. -
Timesharing
This was the first sign of online communities -
Invention of the Laptop
The portable laptop was invented, based on the SCAMP protype. It was called the IBM 5100. -
Microsoft Corp.
This is when the corporation of Microsoft was made. -
Apple 1
Invented by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. -
Apple 2
Steve Wozniak designed the Apple II in 1977. The self-contained unit housed electronics, keyboard and power supply, with the BASIC language in permanent memory. A TV served as the display. -
Personal Computer
The IBM PC revolutionized business computing by becoming the first PC to gain widespread adoption by industry. -
Java 1.0
Java lets any program to run on a computer. -
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch was created, which was basically a computer in minature form, which made technology revolutionary because it is so compact. -
Drum Memory
Eager to enhance America’s codebreaking capabilities, the US Navy contracts with Engineering Research Associates (ERA) for a stored program computer. Atlas used magnetic drum memory, which stored information on the outside of a rotating cylinder coated with ferromagnetic material. -
UNIVAC UNISERVO tape drive
It was the first tape storage device for a commercial computer, and the relative low cost, portability and unlimited offline capacity of magnetic tape made it very popular.
