History of Computers

Konrad Zuse

Mar 26, 1938

Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape.
This was the revolutionary computer to todays computers.

Complex Numbers Calculator

Mar 15, 1939

George Stibitz developed the first complex numbers calculator. This is a foundation for digital computers.
I selected it because it is a basis to how they developed a modern calculater.

Colossus

Mar 26, 1943

Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus.
This is important because we still use a variation of Colossus today.

Andrew Donald Booth

Mar 26, 1948

Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory.
This is important because it revolutianized storage today.

Hideo Yamachito

Mar 26, 1950

The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
This is very imprtant because it is the way we use computers now.

The Russians!

Mar 26, 1957

Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians.
This isimportant because this is when computers started to be used for new purposes.

The first computer game

Mar 26, 1962

The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT.
This was the first game the every other game is based off of.

Floppy Disk

Mar 26, 1967

IBM creates the first floppy disk.
The flobby disk was revolutionary to portable storage.

Email!

Mar 26, 1971

E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson.
E-mail is still used today because of Ray.

Computers, computers, and more computers!

Mar 26, 1979

Over half a million computers are in use in the United States.
This is important because this is when computers were sstarting to boom.