ICT timeline

By tatianagol

  • Hewlett-Packard is founded

    David Packard and Bill Hewlett together found Hewlett-Packard. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator. Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie titled "Fantasia".

  • Project Whirlwind, The navy approach (MIT) Massachusettes Institute of Technology regarding a project to build a flight simulator

    1948 – IBM SSEC, IBM’s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator computed data in a public display near headquarters in Manhattan. Before decommission SSEC produced the moon position tables used for the course of 1969 Apollo flight to the moon.

  • The first commercial computer was released and built by Engineering Research Associates (ERA), the U.S Navy was their first customer

    It stored data on magnetic drums and had a capacity of 1million bits. Drums progressed eventually to allow a limit of around 4’000 words.

  • First Interactive Computer Game, SpaceWar was wrote by MIT students

    This was first played at MIT and the large scope display featured inspired future generations video games. You could duel other players spaceship using a very early version of the first ever “Joystick”.

  • First Email Sent, Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt and Newman sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project

    The “@” symbol is what Tomlinson is most credited for when using e-mail. He sent his e-mail over a military network called ARPANET.

  • First Computer Virus is created and sent by Robert morris

    The “Worm” virus causes a lot of trouble for about 6’000 to 60’000 people linked to the same network. He is fined $10’050, 400 hours of community work and 3 years of probation.

  • The WorldWideWeb (WWW) is born when Tim Berners-Lee developed Hypertext Mark-up Language

    HTML as it is more commonly known as allows the internet to expand into the WorldWideWeb using specification such as Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

  • Facebook the social networking site is launched in February 2004, privately owned by Facebook Inc.

    Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. As of a query in 2011 Facebook is valued at about $41 billion and has over 800 million active users.