Technology History

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  • The word "computer" was first used

    The word "computer" was first used

    WikipediaThe word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally was used to describe a person who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end of the 19th century when it began referring to a machine that performed calculations.
  • Eniac Invented

    Eniac Invented

    AboutThe ENIAC was the first digital computer and cost almost $500,000. The machine was the size of a small gym and contianed over 17,000 vacuum tubes.
  • The first stored program computer

    The first stored program computer

    Wikipedia The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby".
  • First commercial computer

    First commercial computer

    AboutIn 1942, Konrad Zuse begin working on the Z4, which later became the first commercial computer after being sold to Eduard Stiefel a mathematician of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on July 12, 1950.

  • First computer with RAM

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

    The first transistor computer

    WikipediaThe TX-O (Transistorized Experimental computer) is the first transistorized computer to be demonstrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956.
  • releas of the internet

    releas of the internet

    WikipediaUCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969.
  • First ARPANet

    First ARPANet

    Wikipedia First ARPANet node installed at UCLA Network Measurement Center. Kleinrock hooked up the Interface Message Processor to a Sigma 7 Computer.
  • The first microprocessor

    The first microprocessor

    AboutIntel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
  • The first labtop

    The first labtop

    WikipediaThe IBM 5100 is the first portable computer.
  • The first apple computer was invented.

    The first apple computer was invented.

    AboutSteve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976.
  • Release of Java

    Release of Java

    Wikipedia Sun Microsystems releases Java.