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Hewlett-Packard is founded
David Packard and Bill hewlett founded their company in their garage in California. They had their first product, the HP 200A Audio oscillator, which rapidly became a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. -
Zonard Zuse finshes the Z3 Computer
An early computer built by German engineer Konrad Zuse working in complete isolation from developments elsewhere, uses 2,300 relays.It also performs a floating point binary arithmetic, and has a 22-bit word length. -
Public unveiling of ENIAC
The ENIAC computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. It was over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer at that time. -
Birth of the modem
Developed in 1949 a computer talks over a ordinary voice phone lines through modems. By letting computers use normal voice telephone lines, they offer greater coverage and lower costs than dedicated telegraph or leased data lines. -
Digital Phone lines
Phone companies develop digital transmission for internal uses. By 1958, this produces the T1 standard still used in North America. -
DEC PDP-1 introduced
This computer system includes a cathode ray tube graphic display, paper tape input/output, and needs no air conditioning. More than 50 PDP-1s were sold -
Birth of modern mobile networks
In 1973, ARPA funds the outfitting of a packet radio research van at SRI to develop standards for a Packet Radio Network. As the unmarked van drives through the San Francisco Bay Area, stuffed full of hackers and sometimes uniformed generals, it is pioneering wireless, packet-switched digital networks, including the kind your mobile phone uses today. -
IBM announces SNA
IBM has been building hierarchical, special-purpose networks since the SAGE system in the late 1950s and SABRE not long after. In 1974 it announces Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a set of protocols designed for less centralized networks. -
Apple II introduced
Sold complete with a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape. Showed brilliant color graphics for the time. -
US national science foundation network starts up
U.S. Internet protocols (TCP/IP) get a major boost when the National Science foundation forms the NSFNET, linking five supercomputer centers at Princeton University, Pittsburgh, University of California at San Diego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Cornell University. This helped a lot of universities. -
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Engineers at Iowa State University built this working reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer between 1994 and 1997. It was a little bit smaller than the original. -
WiFi comes home
In 1999, the growing IEEE 802.11b short-range radio networking standard is rebranded “Wi-Fi” by the Wi-Fi Alliance. An example would be the apple airport Wi-Fi base station -
The mobile web arrives in Japan
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo creates the i-mode networking standard for mobile data in 1999. Key factor at that time for technology in Japan -
First iphone
On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs introduced the first iphone. It instantly became famous because of the features it had. -
The mobile web hits the mass market
The iPhone’s phenomenal popularity creates a new computing platform that brings mobile Web browsing to a large audience. The App store model used by the iPhone and then Android is based on Apple’s earlier success with iTunes.
