Technology History Project

ENIAC Invented

Jan 25, 1946

SourceThe ENIAC was the first electronic computer invented by the U.S. Army during WWII. The ENIAC cost $500,000 to build and was 1800 square feet.

Network Cable

Jan 25, 1952

SourceIn the past 65 years, cable has emerged from a novelty for a handful of households to the nation’s preeminent provider of digital television, movies and state-of-the-art broadband Internet service available to millions of Americans

The SAGE

Jan 25, 1956

SourceThe SAGE aircraft-warning system was the largest vacuum computer system ever built. Each Center had two 55,000-tube computers built by IBM, MIT, AND Bell Labs. The 275-ton computers known as "Clyde" were based on Jay Forrester's Whirlwind.

ERMA

Jan 25, 1959

SourceGeneral Electric Corporation delivered its Electronic Recording Machine Accounting (ERMA) computing system to the Bank of America in California. Based on a design by SRI, the ERMA system employed Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) as you get data from the checks and putting it with the ATM machines.

ARPANET

Jan 25, 1966

SourceARPANET linked many univerrsities and research centers together. The reason of creating ARPANET is to make it easier for people to access computers, to improve computer equipment, and a better communcation for the military.

Mini-computer

Jan 25, 1968

SourceDEC introduced the first "mini-computer" it was named after the mini-skirt. DEC was founded in 1957 by Kenneth H. Olsen who came for the SAGE project at MIT and began sales of the PDP-1 in 1960

First Apple Product

Jan 25, 1976

SourceFirst apple product was founded by Steve Jobs. They computer was built by hand.

Wireless Networking

Jan 25, 1985

SourceWireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and enterprise installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various equipment locations

Hypercard

Jan 25, 1987

Source Bill Atkinson of Apple Computers created a software program called HyperCard that was bundled free with all Macintosh computers.Ted Nelson thought about the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1965 based on the pre-computer ideas of Vannevar Bush.

Mosaic

Jan 25, 1993

SourceThe first Web browser called Mosaic was created by two students Marc Andreesen and programmer Eric Bina at NCSA. The beta version 0.5 of X Mosaic for UNIX was released Jan. 23 1993 and was instant success. The PC and Mac versions of Mosaic followed quickly. Mosaic was the first software to interpret a new IMG tag, and to display graphics along with text. Image became one of the most used features of the web,

Bluetooth

Jan 25, 1994

SourceSandard for the short-range wireless interconnection of cellular phones, computers, and other electronic devices

Google opened its first office

Jan 25, 1998

Source Google opened its first office in 1998. The office was in California.

IPod

Jan 25, 2001

SourceIPod is a line of portable media players. The IPod was released 8 1/2 months after iTunes.

Youtube

Jan 25, 2005

Source Youtube was launched in 2005. It is a video-sharing website head quarted in San Bruno, California. It was created by some former Paypal employees and then owned by Google .

Android

Jan 25, 2007

SourceAndriod is a operating system. It was devoloped by google.