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History OF Computing

By Brayden_J

  • First recorded use of the word 'computer

    First recorded use of the word 'computer
    The word 'computer' was first used in the book 'The yong mans gleanings' written by English writer Richard Braithwait

  • Hewlett-Packard is Founded.

    Hewlett-Packard is Founded.
    David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard (HP) in a californian garage. HP's first product was an Audio Oscillator which was very popular amongst engineers and 8 were bought by the video production company Walt Disney for their movie "Fantasia' in 1940.

  • First Computer Bug

    First Computer Bug
    Grace Hopper recorded the first actual computer 'bug' a moth stuck in the relays at 15:45 on the ship Harvard Mark II

  • Popular Mechanics

    Popular Mechanics
    American Popular Mechanics magazine predicts 'Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons'

  • Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant

    Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant
    The USSR's Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant opens June 27, 1954 and becomes the first Nuclear power plant to generate electricity.

  • First Mouse

    First Mouse
    The first mouse was invented by Douglas Englebart in the 60's and was patented on November 17th 1970. His mouse was first used with the Xerox Alto computer system in 1973.

  • First Email sent

    First Email sent
    The first email is sent by Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman. He was credited for the design of the '@'. When asked about what the email contained he said 'it was something like 'QWERTYUIOP'

  • Pong is Releaased

    Pong is Releaased
    Atari releases pong on November 29th, the first commercial video game ever made. It started out as a coin operated machine popular in arcades but soon Atari released a home version of Pong which sold 150,000 copies one holidays season.

  • Microsoft Corporations Founded

    Microsoft Corporations Founded
    Microsoft Corporations Founded on 4th April 1975. It rose in the technological world with its personal computers and operating systems most importantly the 'MS-DOS' in the mid 1980's and then followed my Microsoft Windows which would dominate the market to this day,

  • First Portable Computer

    First Portable Computer
    Adam Osborne finished the first portable computer, the Osborne I, which weighed 11 kilos and cost $1,795. The machine had a 5 inch display, 64kb of memory and 5 floppy disk drives.

  • Commodore 64

    Commodore 64
    Commodore releases the commodore 64. The commodore 64 sold for $595, came with 64kb of ram and had very impressive graphics for its time.

  • Doom is released

    Doom is released
    id Software release Doom late 1993. An immersive first-person shooter game, Doom became popular on many different platforms. Doom players were also among the first to customize the game’s levels and appearance.

  • Zip Disk

    Zip Disk
    The Iomega Zip Disk is released to the public. The first version allowed 100mb to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 and a half inch floppy disk. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from 100mb to 2gb.

  • Google Founded

    Google Founded
    Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google when they were Ph.D students at Stanford University. Google would then become the most used website in the world and one of the biggest companies in the world.

  • First Radio Message Across the Atlantic

    First Radio Message Across the Atlantic
    The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code. A feat most people thought absolutely impossible at the time.