History of Computing

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    In 1832, Charles Babbge originated the concept of a programmable computer
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Created the first freely programmable computer, Z1 Computer
  • John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry

    John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
    John and Clifford created the first automatic electronic digital computer
  • Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper

    Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper
    Howard and Graced invented the Harvard Mark 1 computer, a general purpose electro-mechanical computer that was used in the war effort during the last part of World War II
  • John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly

    John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
    The first electronic general-purpose computer was built
  • Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn

    Frederic Williams & Tom Kilburn
    Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube, was the world's first stored-program computer
  • John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly

    John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
    UNIVAC Computer, the first commercial computer & was able to pick presidential winners
  • International Business Machines

    International Business Machines
    IBM enters into 'The History of Computers', by inventing the 'IBM 701 EDPM Computer'
  • John Backus & IBM

    John Backus & IBM
    The FORTRAN Computer Programming Language, was the first successful high level programming language
  • Stanford Research Institute

    Stanford Research Institute
    ERMA and MICR was the first bank industry computer
  • Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

    Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
    The Integrated Circuit, the chip, was invented
  • Steve Russell & MIT

    Steve Russell & MIT
    The first computer game, Spacewar computer game, was invented
  • Douglas Engelbart

    Douglas Engelbart
    Created the mouse
  • ARPAnet

    ARPAnet
    This was the original internet
  • Intel 1103 Computer Memory

    Intel 1103 Computer Memory
    The world's first available dynamic RAM chip.
  • Faggin, Hoff & Mazor

    Faggin, Hoff & Mazor
    Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor was the first microprocessor
  • Alan Shugart & IBM

    Alan Shugart & IBM
    Alan Shugart creates the floppy disk
  • Robert Metcalfe & Xerox

    Robert Metcalfe & Xerox
    The Ethernet cable was invented, creating networks
  • Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair

    The first consumer computer was the IBM 5100 Computers
  • Microsoft Windows

    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple