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First Computer Made
1822: English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, The world’s first computer was actually built. -
The first computer to store information on its main memory
1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory. -
First Cmputer Lang.
1953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL. -
The first Dynamic Access Memory chip
1970: The newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip. -
Apple Lisa
1983: Apple’s Lisa is the first personal computer with a GUI. It also features a drop-down menu and icons. -
The World wide web
1990: Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), giving rise to the World Wide Web. -
First Graphic and Music For Computers
1993: The Pentium microprocessor advances the use of graphics and music on PCs. -
Apple unviels the Mac OS X operating system
2001: Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking, among other benefits.
