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Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. -
Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole
In 1854 he published An Investigation into the Laws of Thought, on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, which he regarded as a mature statement of his ideas. ... With Boole in 1847 and 1854 began the algebra of logic, or what is now called Boolean algebra. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone
On June 3, 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first wireless telephone message on his newly invented "photophone," a device that allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light. Bell held four four patents for the photophone, and built it with the help of an assistant, Charles Sumner Tainter. The first wireless voice transmission took place over a distance of 700 feet. -
Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first predicted the existence of radio waves in the 1860s. In 1886, German physicist Heinrich Rudolph Hertz demonstrated that rapid variations of electric current could be projected into space in the form of radio waves, similar to light waves and heat waves. -
Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth
Born in Beaver, Utah, on August 19, 1906, Philo T. Farnsworth was a talented scientist and inventor from a young age. In 1938, he unveiled a prototype of the first all-electric television, and went on to lead research in nuclear fusion. -
Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird FRSE (/ˈloʊɡi bɛərd/; 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system on 26 January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system. -
Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language
Kurt Friedrich Gödel (b. 1906, d. 1978) was one of the principal founders of the modern, metamathematical era in mathematical logic. He is widely known for his Incompleteness Theorems, which are among the handful of landmark theorems in twentieth century mathematics, but his work touched every field of mathematical logic, if it was not in most cases their original stimulus. -
Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
Turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrary input. The universal machine essentially achieves this by reading both the description of the machine to be simulated as well as the input thereof from its own tape. Alan Turing introduced the idea of such a machine in 1936–1937. -
E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) was invented by James Fergason
Tomlinson invented direct email messages in 1971. Before his invention, electronic messages could be shared only on a very limited network.
Among those paying tribute was Gmail, one of many offshoots of Tomlinson's creation. -
Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
In partnership with his friend Steve Jobs, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. The pair founded Apple Computers in 1976 with Ronald Wayne, releasing some of the first personal computers on the market -
Over half a million computers are in use in the United States
This graph shows the percentage of U.S. households with a computer at home between 1979 and 2010. In 2001, 56.3 percent of U.S. households owned a computer. In 2009, 77 percent of adult women and 78 percent of adult men used the computer at least occasionally. 81 percent of the 30-49 year-olds used the computer at least ocassionally in 2005 -
Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer
Neuromancer is considered "the archetypal cyberpunk work". ... Gibson himself coined the term "cyberspace" in his novelette "Burning Chrome", published in 1982 by Omni magazine, but it was through its use in Neuromancer that it gained recognition to become the de facto term for the World Wide Web during the 1990s. -
The World Wide Web: The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991
On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, inviting collaborators. This date is sometimes confused with the public availability of the first web servers, which had occurred months earlier. -
Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
1998: Handed a check for $100,000 made out to "Google Inc.," Sergey Brin and Larry Page figure they better incorporate their fledgling search engine. So they do. -
Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
The next generation of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming console will have its official debut later this month, and it’s hard to believe it’s been just over 13 years since Bill Gates announced the very first system’s arrival. -
September 12: eBay acquires Skype
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2005--eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY)(www.ebay.com) has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration. -
Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.
Tech giant Microsoft Corp. announced this week that it plans to buy internet calling service Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion in cash. But this isn't the first time a company has ponied up major dollars for Skype since it was founded by two European entrepreneurs more than eight years ago
