Major Technology Events

The first electric light was made by Humphry Davy

Jan 1, 1800

Invention of typewriter

Jun 23, 1868

http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/a/newspaper_2.htm

A patent was approved for the keyboard Qwerty

Aug 27, 1878

http://people.smu.edu/eheise/consider_qwerty.htm

The first electric programmable computer,Colossus

Dec 1, 1943

This was used in WWII to aid the military is reading encrypted German messages. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Colossus_computer.html

Eniac was patented.. it was 1800 sq ft

Jan 1, 1947

http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htm

UNIVAC was created to assist the census. It took three years to build.

Mar 1, 1951

https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/univac_i.html

The UNIVAC was used for the preidential election in1952

Nov 4, 1952

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/30/1952.idg/

Tansistor won the Nobel Prize for physics

Dec 11, 1956

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/brattain-bio.html

the first computer game, spacewar, was created by Steve Russel

Jan 1, 1962

http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm

Texas Insturment invented by Jack Kilby

Jan 1, 1962

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/tihistory_subpage2.shtml

The mouse was created by Doug Englebart out of a block of wood, a circuit board, and 2 metal wheels

Jan 1, 1964

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/04/douglas-engelbart-dies-at-88/

The microprocessor was invented by Intel

Jan 1, 1969

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor

ARPANET created for military bases to communicate with each other

Nov 21, 1969

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091598.htm

first computer virus, Creeper, was createdand it said, "catch me if you can"

Jan 1, 1971

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/01/malware-cyberplague-internet-meltdown

Ray Tomilson receives the first email

Jan 1, 1971

http://email.about.com/cs/emailhistory/a/first_email.htm

Osborne 1 is released, which costed $1795

Jan 1, 1981

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllaptop.htm

Scamp Ibm's first computer was released 3 Apr 1973

Jan 1, 1981

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

Times Magazine names the 'Machine of the Year' the computer

Jan 1, 1982

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19830103,00.html

Wordstar was created by Seymour Rubenstein and Ron Barnaby

Jan 1, 1982

http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm

The sideways smile emoticon was created by Scott Fahlman

Sep 19, 1982

http://www.sherv.net/emoticon-history.html

The Lisa, the first home computer with a graphical user interface, was created

Jan 19, 1983

The World Wide Web is created by Tim Berners Lee, from the UK.

Jan 1, 1989

http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/p/TimBernersLee.htm

Backrub (today known as Google) was incorporated by two stanford students

Sep 4, 1998

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

playstation 2 released

Mar 4, 2000

Gamecube released by Nintendo

Sep 14, 2001

The first smartphone is released that could receive email and had internet

Jan 1, 2002

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

The Wii is released by Nintendo

Nov 9, 2006

Frst Ipad released

Mar 3, 2010

http://www.slashgear.com/apple-ipad-was-released-3-years-ago-today-03276372/ 

Xbox One released

Nov 22, 2013

The apple computer, which was created by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne

Mar 26, 2014

http://apple-history.com/h1