History of Computers

The first Typewriter was built by Christopher Latham Sholes

Jun 23, 1868

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=623

A patent was approved for the QWERTY keyboard

Aug 27, 1878

http://people.smu.edu/eheise/consider_qwerty.htm

the first calculator

Jan 1, 1939

Colussus, the first electric programable computer

Dec 1, 1943

Colussus was used to sid the miltary in WWII to help read German encrypted messages. http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/computer-hist-web.htm

Harvard Mark 1 was designed

Jan 1, 1944

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/computer-history-full-timeline.html

The Eniac was patented and was 1800 sq ft

Jan 1, 1947

http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htm

the UNIVAC was craeted tassist the census. It took 3 yrs to build

Mar 1, 1951

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/univac-computer-dedicated

UNIVAC was used for the preidential election of 1952

Nov 4, 1952

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/31/163951263/the-night-a-computer-predicted-the-next-president

IBM enters the computer industry

Jan 1, 1953

http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

Tansistor won the Nobel Prize for physics

Dec 11, 1956

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/

Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit that was used in 1962 by Texas Instruments for airforce computers and minute man missiles

Jan 1, 1958

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/tihistory_subpage2.shtml

Spacewar, the first computer game, was created by Steve Russel

Feb 1, 1962

http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm

The mouse was created by Doug Englebart out of a block of wood, a circuit board, and 2 metal wheels

Jan 1, 1964

http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/mouse.html

DEC launched the first mini computer the PDP-8.

Jan 1, 1968

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/computer-history-full-timeline.html

the microprocessor was inventedby Intel employees

Jan 1, 1969

http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microprocessor.htm

The ARPANET was created to allow military bases to communicate with each other

Nov 21, 1969

http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/

Ray Tomilson receives the first email through ARPANET

Jan 1, 1971

http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm

The first computer virus, Creeper, was created and based on a scooby doo character. It said 'catch me if you can'

Jan 1, 1971

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/17/creeper-the-first-computer-virus-is-40-years-young-today/

Scamp Ibm's first computer was released

Apr 3, 1973

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

The first computer operated by computer disks

Jan 1, 1976

http://evolutionofcomputers.edublogs.org/q3-the-timeline/

The apple computer was created by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne

Jul 1, 1976

https://www.google.com/#q=who+created+the+first+apple+computer+&safe=off

Osborne 1 is released at 1795$

Jan 1, 1981

http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html

Times Magazine 'Machine of the Year' is the computer

Jan 1, 1982

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/lisagui.html

Wordstar was created by Seymour Rubenstein and Ron Barnaby

Apr 1, 1982

http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm

The sideways smile emoticon was created by Scott Fahlman

Sep 19, 1982

http://www.sherv.net/emoticon-history.html

The Lisa, the first home computer with a graphical home interface, was created

Jan 19, 1983

http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/lisagui.html

Tim Berners Lee, from the UK, created the World Wide Web

Jan 1, 1989

http://www.webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

Google (Backrub) was incorporated by two stanford students

Sep 4, 1998

http://www.google.com/about/company

first smartphone released that could receive email and had internet

Jan 1, 2002

http://mail2web.com/blog/2011/05/smartphone-revolution-growth-smartphones-exchange-activesync/

first ipad released

Mar 3, 2010

http://ipad.about.com/od/Tablet_Computers_eReaders/tp/A-List-Of-iPad-Models-Generations.htm