My Tech Timeline

By mesacc4life
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    The 1960s!

    Some important discoveries and inventions for computer science in the 1960s.
  • Spacewar!

    Spacewar!

    Early computer game, inspired other games, open source code ported to other programmers and ported to different computers. Steve Russell, MIT
  • Packet Switching

    Packet Switching

    Remains the dominant basis for data communication between networks. Paul Baran, RAND Corporation (independently invented by Donald Davies, NPL in 1965)
  • BASIC created

    BASIC created

    Developed to make programming accessible for students who were not scientists or mathematicians. Influenced Visual Basic. Thomas E Kurtz and John George Kemeny (pictured), Dartmouth College
  • The Floppy Disk

    The Floppy Disk

    Hard disk for storing information before CDs and Flash drives, no longer in use except for the Save button on many apps today. Alan Shugart, IBM.
  • NLS, or the "oN-Line System"

    NLS, or the "oN-Line System"

    Demonstrated many facets of modern computing, such as the mouse, windows, email, word processing. Douglas Engelbart, Stanford.