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Charles Babbage
Considered the "Father of Computers" when he made the difference engine 14 June 1822. After he conceptunalized and made the first computer, the difference engine, he was able to theorize that it was possible to make the analytical engine -
Census Tabulator
Herman Hollerith invented modern punched card for use in machine to help tabulate census. -
Percy Ludgate
Irish accountant that made a programmable mechanical computer. He later also expanded on Babbage's computer concept and creadted a working computing device outside the lab. -
Konrad Zuse
Z2 was invented by German engineer, Konrad Zuse. It was the first relay eletromagnetic computer. -
Z3
Kenrad Zuse refined his Z2 to the Z3 and made it the first elecrtomagnechanical programable, automatic digital computer. Program code and data were stored on punchable film. It pioneered floting number points. -
Atanasoff–Berry Computer
Invented and tested by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University, the Atanasoff- Berry COmputer. It was the first all-electronic digital computing device. -
UNIVAC
(Universal Automatic Computer) Eckert & Mauchly First commercially available general purpose computer -
ARPA Launches
In response to the USSR launching Sputnik, the US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the following year, within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military. This was a big start of the "space race" (the race to supremeacy in technology between soviet states and the US). -
Packe Switching
Leonard Kleinrock, MIT, wote te first paper on the theory of packet switching. Packet switching, according to Princeton University is "a digital networking communications method that groups all transmitted data – regardless of content, type, or structure – into suitably-sized blocks, called packets." -
LINC
The Laboratory Instrumentation Computer was the first real-time laboratory data processor. It was designed by Wesley Clark, and later it was commercialized it as LINC-8. -
PDP-8
"Digital Equipment Company's first successful minicomputer, the PDP-8 is introduced. The computer sold for $18,000 and over 50,000 are sold." -
Flight Simulator
First demonstrated as a 3-D demo in 1975, today when referring to computers, a flight simulator is a computer game that simulates the environment of a pilot in control of a flying machine. -
C++
"Bjarne Stroustrup was doing work for his Ph.D. thesis. One of the languages Stroustrup had the opportunity to work with was a language called Simula, which as the name implies is a language primarily designed for simulations. he began work on "C with Classes" (later names C++) His goal was to add object-oriented programming into the C language, which was and still is a language well-respected for its portability without sacrificing speed or low-level functionality." -
Micro solutions
Micro Solutions, Inc. was a manufacturer of computer backup products, including CD-RW/DVD-ROM, hard drives, and diskette drives, and was founded in 1980. -
Tandy 1000
The Tandy 1000 was introduced and became the best-selling IBM-compatible computer of the year. -
Webcam
The first webcam connects to the internet! -
PNG
The PNG (portable network graphic) standard is introduced.This format was largely created as a replacement to the GIF image format -
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act becomes effective -
Hypertransport
HyperTransport was codenamed Lightning Data Transfer (LDT) and today is used in computers, servers, and other high-performance networking and communications equipment. The initial release of HyperTransport had a top signaling rate of 1.6 GHz on each wire pair and a peak aggregate bandwidth of 12.8Gbs. -
Sir William Tompson
Made first analog computer that predicted tides.It was later improves by Lord Kelvin.
