History of Social Media (1900-2000)

Alan Turing

1936

Alan Turing developed the idea of a machine which compute anything computable. The “Turing Machine” is what modern computers are based on.

First Electronic Digital Computer

1941

J.V. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry create a computer which can solve 29 equations at the same time. First computer to store data.

First Commercial Computer Created

1946

Mauchly and Eckert left the University of Pennsylvania and obtained funding to create the first computer which could be used for businesses and the government.

First Computer Language Created

1953

Grace Hopper creates the first computer code which transforms the wall of numbers into English. There are still remnants of this code today.

First Prototype of Modern Computers

1964

Douglas Engelbart created the first prototype of the modern computer. This included the first mouse. This also starts to evolution for commercial computers.

Floppy Disks Created

1971

Alan Shugart creates floppy disks which allows data to be taken from computer to computer.

First Apple Computer

1976

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create the first computer with one circuit board. Before computers would take up large spaces.

CD ROM Created

1983

The CD ROM could hold 550 megabytes of information which is incredibly low in today’s standards.

WiFi

1999

WiFi becomes part of the computing language as it becomes more wide spread.