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Programming History Timeline

By aadams2

  • First Mechanical Computer is Invented

    The Z1 or Difference Engine, was built by mathematician Charles Babbage in 1822. This mechanical computer was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of them.

  • The Turing Machine is Invented

    Built by Alan Turing in 1936, the Turing Machine was used to print symbols on paper tape that strangely emulated a person following a set of instructions. This baffled many inventors and thus became the foundation for theories about computers and there capabilities.

  • The First Digital Computer

    To not be confused with the channel, the ABC which stands for Atanasoff-Berry Computer was invented by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff. The ABC was an electrical computer that used more than 300 vacuum tubes for digital computing. It was also use binary math and Boolean logic and had no CPU.

  • The First Computer Company

    The Electric Controls Company was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Later to be named EMCC, they made and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIAVC name.

  • The invention of AI

    Coined by John McCarthy and first purposed by Alan Turing in 1955. AI is used to develop a computer and or program which Is meant to simulate a human or have the capability of learning. This has sparked thousands of works such as Robocop, A Space Odyssey and even Terminator.

  • The first minicomputer

    Released in 1960, the PDP-1 was the first ever minicomputer. It had five-megacycle circuits, a magnetic core memory, and fully parallel processing with a computing rate of 100,000 APS or additions per second.

  • The Dataphone

    Released by AT&T in 1960, the Dataphone is most modernly known as a modem. It was used to boost the signal of the rotary phone so that it could reach people at a further distance.

  • The first desktop and mas-market computer

    Built by Pier Perotto and manufactured by Olivetti, the first desktop computer or Programma 101; was unveiled in 1964 to the public at a New York World's Fair.

  • The SHRDLU

    Written by Terry Winograd in 1968, the SHDRLU was an important piece of software that could utilize its AI to interpret the natural language of a human user kind of like how autocorrect or click and go games run today.

  • The First Workstation

    Introduced in 1974, the Xerox Alto is considered the first workstation despite it never being sold. It was revolutionary and unique for the time due to it coming with a fully functional computer, display, and even a mouse. Many of it's capabilities were first introduced to the public by Douglas Engelbart in 1968 at the Mother of

  • The First Microcomputer

    Developed by Vietnamese-French Engineer, Andre Truong Trong Thi and Francois Gernelle in 1973, the Micral Computer was the world's first non-assembly computer.

  • The First Portable Computer

    In 1975, the world was astonished when the IBM 5100 was released to the public. It had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9 MHz PALM processor, and 64 KB or RAM.

  • The First Apple Computer

    Developed by Steve Wozniak and arguably Steve Jobs in 1975; this computer contained 6502 9-bit processor and 4 kb of memory that could expand to 8 or even 48 kb. The computer required a power supply, display, keyboard, and case in order to use it.

  • The first IBM Computer

    Introduced by IBM in 1981, the first IBM computer or IBM PC had a 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, that could expand to 156 and even utilized MS-DOS.

  • Bethesda is Founded

    Founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986, this game company would soon be responsible for creating games such as Doom, Wolfenstein, and Gridiron which was the first game to utilize physics to make the game more challenging and realistic.

  • World's First 3D Animated Movie

    In 1995, children all over the world were introduced to the world of Pixar through the movie Toy Story. This not only was famous for its story but also due to the fact that it was made up of entirely CGI.

  • Worlds first 4k Engine

    From pixel, to 2d, and 3d; 4k is the next step in the evolution of gaming. With its ability to show realistic skin and hair textures including it astonishing ability to render objects in a way that it can almost seem too real. Gaming will one day almost always be made in game engines such as this one.

  • The future of gaming

    After the announcement of Xbox One X, and PlayStation 4 Pro's 4k and HDR capabilities, gamers were excited to know that games are becoming what they have dreamed since its creation.