History of Computers

  • First Video Game

    First Video Game
    The video game was released and manufactured by the company known as Atari. The release of the video game Pong, defined the electronic entertainment industry for the next decade. Pong can be related to the game of table tennis. The games graphics were very simple and were only two-dimensional.
  • Apple Was Founded

    Apple Was Founded
    The most famous founder Steve Jobs, along with Ronald Wayne and Steve Wonzniak created a company that designs, develops, and sells electronics. Steve Jobs made the first apple product in his childhood home located in Los Altos, California, with the goal of changing the way people viewed computers.
  • "Machine of the Year"

    "Machine of the Year"
    When it came time for TIME to release it's annual "Man of the Year", the publisher decided that the only way to really summarize the year was to name a "Machine of the Year". The published piece was a result of the changes in the public's outlook on computers.
  • Word was Introduced

    Word was Introduced
    The new software was developed my Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. They joined the Microsoft team, and two years later they were able to announce the release of Word, which was first called "Multi-Tool Word". The first release, let the public have free trail with the new software.
  • Archie was founded

    Archie was founded
    A student at McGill University in Montreal created the first known search engine. The search engine was created long before most web sites, which started to become popular three years later.
  • Photoshop is Released

    Photoshop is Released
    Created by two brothers, Thomas and John Knoll, a very popular image editing program was released by Adobe Systems. The editing program still allows people to change the colors of images to changing the size an object.
  • Blu-ray Optical Disk

    Blu-ray Optical Disk
    The release of the Blu-ray disk was intended to have high definition video and become the successor to the DVD. The disk is able to store things in 720p and 1080p, also known as the term HD.
  • Kayla Lovich Got Her First Phone

    Kayla Lovich Got Her First Phone
    Kayla got her first phone on her tenth birthday. Her parents got it for her because she did cheer and needed a way to contact them when practice was over.
  • Apple Watch is Released

    Apple Watch is Released
    Developed and designed by Apple Company the smartwatch is can be referred to a mini computer. The watch has qualities like sending and receiving calls, measuring your heart rate and steps, giving you directions, ext.
  • Emily Lynch Got Her First Phone

    Emily Lynch Got Her First Phone
    Emily got her first phone is the spring of seventh grade, because her mother believed she wasn't "responsible" enough to have one before. The purchase was random, because her mom was off and needed a new phone for the longest time and finally decided to get one. When she got to the store she made the drastic decision to buy Emily a phone because she would need to go back to the store sooner, or later.