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Change of sound!
Hewlett-Packard is Founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney Pictures ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie “Fantasia.” -
Start writing faster
Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 computer. The Z3 was an early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere. Using 2,300 relays, the Z3 used floating point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length. The original Z3 was destroyed in a bombing raid of Berlin in late 1943. However, Zuse later supervised a reconstruction of the Z3 in the 1960s which is currently on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. -
The start of a new ERA
John von Neumann drafts a report describing a stored-program computer, and gives rise to the term "von Neumann computer". -
Learning a new language
Zuse invents Plankalkul, the first programming language, while hiding out in Bavaria.The ENIAC is revealed to the public. A panel of lights is added to help show reporters how fast the machine is and what it is doing; and apparently Hollywood takes note. -
First computer made by U.S bussiness
Eckert and Mauchly, now with their own company (later sold to Remington Rand), design UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer)—the first computer for U.S. business. Its breakthrough feature: magnetic tape storage to replace punched cards. First developed for the Bureau of the Census to aid in census data collection, UNIVAC passes a highly public test by correctly predicting Dwight Eisenhower’s victory over Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential race. But months before UNIVAC is completed, -
Nazi code breaker
Alan Turing was principally a mathematician, most famous for helping break the German's Enigma code during World War II at Bletchley Park. It was here, though, that Turing turned to computers to help break codes faster, saving millions of lives in the process and shortening the length of the war. -
First ever disk drive for RAM
IBM engineerled by Reynold Johnson design the first disk drive for random-access storage of data, offering more surface area for magnetization and storage than earlier drums. In later drives a protective "boundary layer" of air between the heads and the disk surface would be provided by the spinning disk itself. The Model 305 Disk Storage unit, later called the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, is released in 1956 with a stack of fifty 24-inch aluminum disks storing 5 millionbyte -
High Level programm made!
FORTRAN (for FORmula TRANslation), a high-level programming language developed by an IBM team led by John Backus, becomes commercially available. FORTRAN is a way to express scientific and mathematical computations with a programming language similar to mathematical formulas. Backus and his team claim that the FORTRAN compiler produces machine code as efficient as any produced directly by a human programmer. Other programming languages quickly follow, including ALGOL, intended as a universal com -
First mini computer!
Digital introduces the PDP-1 the first minicomputer. -
First computer mouse
Douglass E. Invents the first computer mouse, becasue of the tail sticking our of the end of it, it was celled a mouse. -
First Word Processor
Word processor: IBM introduces the first word processor -
E-mail :)
E-mail: E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson -
First portable computer
Altair invents the first portable computer -
Hard drive makes everything easier
Hard disks are an essential part of the computer revolution, allowing fast, random access to large amounts of data. -
Apple relesed affordable home computer with a GUI.
"Hello, I am Macintosh. Never trust a computer you cannot lift... I'm glad to be out of that bag" - talking Macintosh Computer. -
Microsoft on the move
Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works. -
Wolrd Wide Web created!
The World wide Web was launched in August 6. Information can now be passed around the world in less than seconds. -
Let the hacking begin!
Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI on February 15, 1999. -
Google founded!
Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google -
The world Runs on technology
Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold -
Videos for billions to see
Youtube domain found -
First touch screen!
Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007." -
Google Chrome
Apps and faster web browsing
