History of Computers timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Mar 17, 2014

History of Computers
Jan 1, 1868

First typewriter was invented by Christopher Sholes

http://www.ask.com/question/who-invented-the-typewriter
Jan 1, 1878

QWERTY Keyboard approved

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/qwerty.htm
Jan 1, 1940

Number Calculator created

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Jan 1, 1943

Colossus used in WW2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml
Jan 1, 1947

ENIAC Computer

http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Jan 1, 1951

UNIVAC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I
Jan 1, 1952

UNIVAC used to predict election results
Jan 1, 1956

Transisitor

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/
Jan 1, 1958

Air Force COmputers

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/timeline/semicon/1950/docs/58ic_kilby.htm
Jan 1, 1962

Space War

http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm
Jan 1, 1962

LINC computers offered the first real labratory

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Jan 1, 1964

Mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart
Jan 1, 1968

Microprossesor Chip

http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microprocessor.htm
Jan 1, 1968

Apollo Guidance Computer

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Jan 1, 1969

Arapanet
Jan 1, 1971

Creeper Virsus Message

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/gallery/2009-04/top-10-computer-viruses
Jan 1, 1971

First emal recieved by Ray Tomlinson

https://www.google.com/#q=who+recieved+the+first+email+message
Jan 1, 1974

Alto computer designed with built in Mouse

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Jan 1, 1976

Apple computer released

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Industrial_Design_Group
Jan 1, 1979

Wordstar

http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm
Jan 1, 1981

Osborne 1

http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html
Jan 1, 1981

IBM 5150

http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-Pc.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-Pc.htm
Jan 1, 1982

Machine of the Year on Time Magazine

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19830103,00.html
Jan 1, 1982

Sideways Smile Emoji

http://news.yahoo.com/emoticon-inventor-hates-emoji-because-hes-fuddy-duddy-171902161.htmlhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/
Jan 1, 1983

Apple Lisa

http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
Jan 1, 1984

Macintosh computer made by Apple

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
Jan 1, 1985

Microsoft Windows was created

http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
Jan 1, 1989

World Wide Web introduced

http://blogs.computerworld.com/internet/23649/happy-birthday-world-wide-web-itbwgkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Jan 1, 1998

Google (BackRub) invented

https://www.google.com/about/company/history/
Jan 1, 2002

Blackberry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry
Mar 3, 2010

First Ipad released

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPad.html