History of Computing

Difference Computer(First Computer)

Oct 14, 1822

This was the first computer invented. It was invented by Charles Babbage.

CRT Amusment Device

Jan 25, 1947

This was the first ever computer game. It was based on military radar systems.

Yahoo!

Jan 14, 1994

Yahoo is a search engine and was founded by Jerry Yang, David Filo.

Amazon

Jul 5, 1994

Amazon are an online 'shop' where you can buy almost anything online. It was founded by Jeff Bezos

Netflix

Oct 14, 1997

Netflix is a tv/movie hosting website which you have to pay subscriptions to use. It was created by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Google was founded by Larry Page, Sergey Brin. Google is a search engine. It stood out because it used PageRank to find relationships between websites.

Itunes release

Jan 9, 2001

Itunes is an application store aswell as being a music store, television show store and film store for the apple macintosh platform.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook was the brain-child of Mark Zuckerburg,Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube was created by Chad Hurley,Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It was written in Python and Java software. This was the first ever video sharing website in the world. 'at the zoo' was the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube. It was uploaded at 8:27 pm on Saturday, April 23, 2005, by Jawed Karim.

Twitter

Mar 21, 2006

Twitter is a social networking application which millions of people around the world use. It was founded by Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone. The first user was jack dorsey.

Amazon Instant Video Launched

Sep 7, 2006

Amazon Instant Video (formerly Amazon Video On Demand and lovefilm Instant) is an Internet video on demand service by Amazon. It is very similar to Netflix.

souncloud

Aug 4, 2007

soundcloud is a music hosting website with many users.

Minecraft

May 17, 2009

Minecraft is a multiplayer video game origionally for computers but is now available on all platforms. It is a crafting game where you have find certain things so you can craft weapons,beds, food and shelter. You must also defend yourselves from monsters including skeletons,zombies,spiders and creepers as well as ender men.

gmail launhed

Jun 28, 2011

gmail is an email server provided by google.

snapchat

Jul 4, 2011

snapchat is a social media application which uses pictures instead of words.

pebble smart watch

Nov 11, 2011

The pebble smart watch is an interactive device that connects to your phone on which you can recieve notifications and had a record breaking kick starter of over 10 million pounds. it was born at some point in 2011.

Google play store released

Mar 6, 2012

Google play is the 'itunes' for android phones it has many applications aswell as music, tv and films.

facebook gains 1 billion users

Oct 4, 2012

Facebook is now one of the largest social networking platforms, ever.

google glass

Feb 11, 2013

Google glass is a smart headset/pair of glasses on which you can search the web.

youtube reaches 1 million users.

Mar 21, 2013

Youtube is the best known video hosting website world-wide.

Samsung Gear

Sep 25, 2013

Samsung gear is the name for samsungs smartwatch. Brought out to rival smartwatch company pebble.

Apple smartwatch

Sep 9, 2014

Apple have brought out a smartwatch to rival the technology of pebble.