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3100 BCE
Pre Computers/Machines
Before the actual computer other things were used in place of the computer. Examples would be the Stonehenge. The Henge was used as a primitive calendar and used the light from the summer solstice in order to track time -
200
Pre Computers/Machines
The Abacus, one of the first automatic computers made by the Chinese. this was used because China did business with India, Japan and Korea. Chinese business men would use it as a way to tally bills and accounts. -
Pre Computers/Machines
before computers math was our best option. John Napier discovered multiplication and division of numbers could be performed by the addition and subtraction, respectively, of the logarithms of those numbers. -
Pre Computers/Machines
Pascal's Gear system was an adding machine based off of Hero of Alexandria's design. Pascal made a ten-teeth wheel accessible to be turned directly by a person's hand, with the result that when the wheels were turned in the proper sequences, a series of numbers was entered and a cumulative sum was obtained. The gear train supplied a mechanical answer equal to the answer that is obtained by using math -
First Computer
the first computer was made my a mathematician named Charles Babbage called the Difference engine. -
First Computer
Charles Babbage found out that he could make a more general design of his previous work and so he made the Analytical Computer. To input programs and data he used punch cards and the output would print the results. -
First Computer
The Harvard Mark 1. This early computer was made by Grace M. Hopper and developed by IBM and Howard Aiken. This was in use till 1959 even when overtaken by the competition. It provided vital calculations for the navy in WW2 -
First Computer
Turing machine gave us the foundation and the theories about computers and computing -
First computer
The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room and was the first binary programmable computer therefore was the first modern functioning computer. -
First Computer
The first digital computer developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry. This was am electric computer with more than 300 vacuum tubes for digital computation. this computer was unfortunately non programmable -
Data storage advances
The first hard disk drive was the IBM Model 350 Disk File that came with the IBM 305 RAM AC computer. It had 50 24-inch discs with a total storage capacity of 5 million characters (just under 5 MB) -
Internet history
At&t first introduces the Modem which was the dataphone -
Internet history
the first case of multiple computers on one network was The first workable prototype of the Internet was ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET allowed multiple computers to communicate on a single network. -
Internet history
Compuserve releases the first commercial online service. CIS was known for its online chat system, message forums, software libraries for most platforms, and online games some examples are MegaWars III and Island of Kesmai. Compuserve dominated during the 1990s mainly and early 2000's -
Processor Evolution
First ever processor was made by Intel and it was called the Intel 4004. Which was a 4-bit CPU and was the first commercially available microprocessors. -
Processor Evolution
The next Intel made processor was the 8008. Intel has been dominating the CPU market for a very long time even up till 2018 where they now have the 9th gen of CPUs -
Internet history
A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection' was a paper published in 1974 by Vinton G Cerf and Robert E Kahn. it would eventually be called TCP/IP this was what made the entire Internet possible. -
O/S Evolution
The first processor from apple was Apple DOS 3.1. Apple DOS Apple DOS is the family of disk operating systems for the Apple II series of microcomputers from late 1978 through early 1983. It was superseded by ProDOS in 1983. -
O/S Evolution
Microsoft Windows was fist announced by Bill gates. it was introduced as a graphical user interface for MS-DOS which was released a couple years earlier -
O/S Evolution
The Windows 1.0 was later released and Windows 1.0 is a graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft. was just a small step up from the previous generation -
Data Storage advances
IBM 0681 Redwing had 857 megabytes on twelve 5.2 disks. First HDD with PRML Technology Digital Read Channel with 'partial response maximum likelihood' algorithm. -
Cloud computing
cloud computing was believed to be first release by Google when introduced by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a industry conference. Cloud computing gives us the more storage without having a physical copy with you. -
Cloud computing
OwnCloud is open-source software that allows you to run a personal cloud file storage service. It has features that are comparable to other cloud storage services such as Dropbox. -
Data Storage and Advances
Nowadays there are bigger and faster storage options that go up to 12 terabytes and are a lot faster than storage options from the 70's 12 TB Helium-based HDD available from Western Digital is one of the examples from last year alone -
sites
https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html https://www.computerhope.com/history/internet.htm http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe https://www.cnet.com/news/the-50-most-significant-moments-of-internet-history/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_version_history
