History of Technology Project

By ariannaortiz

  • Evolution of network cabling

    Evolution of network cabling
    In 1844 a man called Samuel Morse sent a message 37 miles from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, using his new invention 'The Telegraph'. Link text

  • Evolution of wireless networking

    Evolution of wireless networking
    In 1901, operators transmitted a short wireless signal between Canada and Britain, the first long distance wireless transmission. Link text

  • ENIAC Mainframe computer was created

    ENIAC Mainframe computer was created
    The 1946, ENIAC Computer was long thought to have been the first electronic computer and the inventors, J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly were the first to patent a digital computing device - - but a 1973, patent infringement case (Sperry Rand Vs. Honeywell), voided the ENIAC patent as a derivative of Atanasoff's invention. Link text

  • Supercomputer

    Supercomputer
    Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, made initially, and for decades primarily, by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), Cray Research and subsequent companies bearing his name or monogram. Link text

  • Minicomputer was born

    Minicomputer was born
    It was invented by a U.S engineer because computers were too expensive. Kenneth Olsen, the U.S Engineer, thought he could make a mini-computer that cost less. In the 1960's it cost $1,000,000 for the huge computers that were selling. Link text

  • First Email Sent

    First Email Sent
    Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet. [Link text](www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6116/First-e-mail-sent-by-Ray-Tomlinson/)

  • The Microcomputer

    The Microcomputer
    The first microcomputer was invented by a team led by Bill Pentz at Sacramento State University in 1972. It was called the Sac State 8008. However, other models of the microcomputer were more successful and set off the industry, such as the Altair 8800 and TRS-80. LInk text

  • First mobile phone call

    First mobile phone call
    The world's first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. [Link text](www.knowyourmobile.com/.../history-mobile-phones-1973-2008-handsets-made-it-all-...)

  • Personal Computer invented

    Personal Computer invented
    The first personal computer. In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. [Link text](www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm)

  • The Laptop

    The Laptop
    The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called 'Osborne 1' and cost $1,795. It came bundled with $1,500 worth of programmes. It had a tiny computer screen built into it. [Link text](timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...invented...laptop...it.../991598.cms)

  • Mac

    Mac
    The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features—the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors. [Link text](history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/Macintosh.html)

  • First Windows Computer

    First Windows Computer
    Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Link text

  • Evolution of ARPANET

    Evolution of ARPANET
    The National Science Foundation’s NSFNET goes online to connected supercomputer centers at 56,000 bits per second. The network then speeds up and regional research and education networks, supported in part by NSF, are connected to the NSFNET backbone. The NSFNET was essentially a network of networks that connected academic users along with the ARPANET. Link text

  • First Microsoft Tablet PC

    First Microsoft Tablet PC
    Microsoft Tablet PC is a term coined by Microsoft for tablet computers conforming to a set of specifications announced in 2001 by Microsoft, for a pen-enabled personal computer.

  • The First iPhone

    The First iPhone
    On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention, and that it would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released. Link text