History of Computers

By pgibson16

  • Father of the Computer

    Father of the Computer
    Alan Turing comes up with the idea of a "computing machine".
    I chose this because Turing went on to create the Turing Test and many other computer discoveries. He is regarded as the father of the computer.

  • Hewlett Packard

    Hewlett Packard
    William Hewlett and David Packard create HP computers.

  • Colossus

    Colossus
    Alan Turing develops the Colosuss, a code breaking machine that helped intelligence agencies across Britain. I chose this because it is one of the first computers used to help the government break codes, and as a result, codes got harder to solve, and more computers created to combat them.

  • Computer Bugs

    Computer Bugs
    A glitch was first referred to as a bug by grace hopper.

  • Computing Machinery and Intellingence

    Computing Machinery and Intellingence
    Alan Turing publishes his paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence. This influences the creation of the turing test

  • IBM 701

    IBM 701
    The IBM 701 becomes available, and 19 are sold.

  • First Computer Game

    First Computer Game
    The first computer game, Spacewar Computer Game, is created at MIT

  • Floppy Disk

    Floppy Disk
    IBM creates the first floppy disk.

  • RAM

    RAM
    Intel releases the first RAM in the intel 4004

  • E-Mail

    E-Mail
    The first e-mail service is created by Ray Tomlinson