Las 20 cosas mas interesante que leí en el timeline Computer History Museum copyrights by computerhistory.org
By Carlos Padua
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Alexander Douglas writes OXO for EDSAC
OXO was one of the first games ever made,it was based in Tic-Tac-Toe. I chose this one because its impressive to see that one of the first games was so basic. -
LUNAR natural language information retrieval system
LUNAR was a really interesting project because it helped analyze data from the moon in Apollo 11 missions. -
Pong is released
Pong fué uno de los juego que hiciera que la etapa arcade pasara y empezara la época moderna de los video juego,era basado en pingpong.Escojí esta porque mis papas solián jugar Pong. -
Microsoft Introduces Word
Word was originally called Multi-tool,word allowed you to do multiple stuff that previously where harder to do. -
Pixar was Founded
Pixar was originally called the Special Effects Computer Group at Lucasfilm (launched in 1979).Pixar Created movies like Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Young Sherlock Holmes. In 1986. I chose this because most of the most successful movies where made by them including Toy Story. -
Computer Defeats Master Chess Player
Deep thought was the first chess computer in defeating a chess master.I chose this because I think this was a huge part in chess history. -
Nintendo releases Game Boy
Game Boy is handheld gaming console that sold 100 million units.I choose this one because I am a gamer and I still play it. -
Photoshop is Released
Photoshop was created by a student in the University of Michigan,photoshop allows you to put special effects on photos. -
Deep blue defeats Gary Kasparov
Deep Blue fué la primera computadora de ajedrez en derrotar a un campeón de ajedrez lograndolo al derrotar a Gary Kasparov campeón mundial para el 1997.Escojí esta porque me gusta mucho el ajedrez. Copyrights by (http://www.computerhistory.org) -
Wifi comes Home
Wifi routers where a huge part In history it made internet more accessible because know business places ,fast foods and many other places had wifi. -
Microsoft enters gaming arena with Xbox
Xbox was a really good gaming console it had insane graphics for that time.I chose this because after Game Cube this was my next gaming console. -
The Roomba is introduced
I Robot Roomba is a robot that has an algorithm that allows him to clean rooms while avoiding obstacles.This was really cool because there was a robot that could clean rooms. -
Stanford's autonomous vehicle wins 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
Stanley was the name of the car that drove 175 miles in the desert autonomously winning the grand prize of 2 million dollars. -
Nintendo Wii comes to market
Nintendo wii brought a whole new gaming experience de gaming console market.I chose this one because my personal experience with the wii was awesome. -
Checkers is Solved
A university research team discovered that if both sides in checkers play perfectly it would end in a tie.I chose this one because I am really interested in board games and this was pretty cool -
Plants vs Zombies is released
Plants vs Zombies is a tower defence game where plants defend a garden against a horde of zombies,it was created by popcap games.I chose this one because I love TD defence games,I used to play them a lot. -
Angry Birds becomes top-selling mobile game
Angry Birds is a top-seller in the app store by having 2 billion downloads. I am not a huge fan of angry birds but this is an interesting fact. -
Siri is Announced
Siri is a "voice-activated personal assistant" it helps you in many functions in your IOS device. -
Facebook acquires Instagram
Instagram image-sharing and social networking application, is purchased by Facebook for nearly $1 billion.This was really impressive because instagram was not that big at that time Facebook saw in what it could become. -
Microsoft Introduces Xbox One
After almost 8 years Microsoft releases another console and as you can expect it has insane graphics and some really cool features.I chose this one because I have an Xbox 360 and I really want an Xbox One
