history of computers

  • First computer invented

    First computer invented
    invented/made: england
    by who: enlish mathematician, charles babbage
    what it does: it was the first programming computer used to create mathematical tables.
    why was it made: to compute mathmatical tables
  • plane

    plane
    On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. The Wrights used this stopwatch to time the Kitty Hawk flights.
  • tv

    tv
    Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
  • First transistor computer

    First transistor computer
    where it was made: england, manchester university
    it was the first prototype transistor computer.
  • travellodge

    travellodge
    ravelodge (formerly TraveLodge) refers to several hotel chains around the world. Current operations include: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. However, many of these are operated by independent companies who have no connection with the brand in other countries.
  • sky

    sky
    Sky plc is a British-based pan-European satellite broadcasting, on-demand Internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company headquartered in London, with operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy.
  • sat nav

    sat nav
    A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system of satellites that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage. It allows small electronic receivers to determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) to high precision (within a few metres) using time signals transmitted along a line of sight by radio from satellites
  • netflix

    netflix
    Netflix, Inc. is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of North America, Australia, New Zealand, South America and parts of Europe
  • google

    google
    Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.
  • xbox

    xbox
    The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market.
  • skype

    skype
    Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls from computers, tablets, and mobile devices via the Internet to other devices or telephones/smartphones.
  • facebook

    facebook
    Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college and his fellow harvard university students.
  • youtube

    youtube
    This enabled people to become famous and let people see their everyday lifes without auditioning for example the bbc you can just put a video up and hope people like you. YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal. In fact, Hurley designed the PayPal logo after reading a Wired article about the online payment company and e-mailing the startup in search of a job.
  • twitter

    twitter
    Jump to Creation and initial reaction - Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day.
  • tumblr

    tumblr
    Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
  • iphone

    iphone
    On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released. On June 11, 2007 announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine on the device. Third parties would create the Web 2.0 applications and users would access them via the internet.
  • instagram

    instagram
    Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.
  • snapchat

    snapchat
    Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, then Stanford University students. it was originally designed for sexting but is now just used for messaging.
  • designer babies

    designer babies
    prediction
    Genetically engineered "designer babies" for the rich
  • synthetic humans

    synthetic humans
    prediction
    Fully synthetic humans are becoming technically feasible
  • MRI scanners

    MRI scanners
    prediction
    Handheld MRI scanners
  • radio

    radio
    prediction
    A radio telescope is built on the Moon
  • people living on mars

    people living on mars
    prediction,
    people will be living on mars permenantly