TechHistory9a

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  • Game

    Game
    1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. file patent #2,455,992 describing one of the first computer games played on a CRT January 25, 1947.

  • Edsac

    Edsac
    The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer.

  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC
    First commercially successful electronic computer, UNIVAC was built.

  • IBM

    IBM
    IBM introduced the Model 305 computer capable of storing 20 megabytes of data.

  • Intel

    Intel
    Intel incorporated. Intel announced the world's fastest computer capable of 1 trillion operations per second.

  • processor

    processor
    Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971

  • Video game

    Video game
    The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey is demonstrated May 24, 1972 and later released by Magnavox and sold for $100.00 USD.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft
    Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 , Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems

  • Email

    Email
    Email was created.

  • Apple

    Apple
    Apple was established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 and incorporated January 3, 1977 by Steve Jobs,Steve Wozniak, William Marshal and Robert Apple.

  • Laptop

    Laptop
    The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, which was released on April 1981.

  • Lehigh Virus

    Lehigh Virus
    555 bytes, System virus (COMMAND.COM), RAM-resident.

  • Webcam

    Webcam

  • NT

    NT
    Microsoft launched Windows NT.

  • The first computer with RAM

    The first computer with RAM
    MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine March 8, 1955 , a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics.

  • Google

    Google
    Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998.

  • Player

    Player
    Diamond Multimedia introduced the Rio, a Walkman-like portable player for MP3 files.

  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.