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first computer
We could argue that the first computer was the abacus or its descendant, the slide rule, invented by William Oughtred in 1622. But the first computer resembling today's modern machines was the Analytical Engine, a device conceived and designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871. -
The first computer game
The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube. The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948.[dead link] The game was a missile simulator inspired by radar displays from World War II. -
Digital Computer
The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. -
The first laptop
The IBM Special Computer APL Machine Portable (SCAMP), was demonstrated in 1973. The first commercially available portable computer, appeared in September 1975, and was based on the SCAMP prototype. As the personal computer (PC) became feasible in 1971, the idea of a portable personal computer followed. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1968. -
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation or is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. It was created on April 4, 1975. -
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the largest Internet based company in the United States. It was founded in July 5, 1994. They are an online shop. -
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in North and South America, the Caribbean, and parts of Europe, and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. -
Youtube
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006. Youtube was created in February 14, 2005 -
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. -
Snapchat
Snapchat is a photo messaging application developed by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, then Stanford University students Using the application, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. These sent photographs and videos are known as "Snaps". Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their Snaps (as of April 2014, the range is from 1 to 10 seconds), after which they will be hidden from the recipients. -
PS4
Moving away from the more complex Cell architecture of its predecessor, the PlayStation 4 features an AMD x86-64 Accelerated Processing Unit, in hopes of attracting a broader range of developers and support for the system. The PlayStation 4's GPU can perform 1.843 teraflops. Sony calls the PlayStation 4 the world's most powerful console and, speaking to Edge magazine, numerous game developers described the performance difference between the PS4 and Xbox One as "'significant' and 'obvio -
Oculuus Rift
The Rift is an upcoming virtual reality head-mounted display, being developed by Oculus VR. During its period as an independent company, Oculus VR raised US$2.4 million for the development of the Rift. The consumer version of the product is expected to become available sometime in 2015. Oculus released two 'development kits'; DK1 in late 2012 and DK2 in mid 2014, to give developers a chance to develop content in time for the Rift's release, however these have also been purchased by many viewers.
