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EDSAC stored program computer.
Source At Cambridge University, Maurice Wilkes creates the EDSAC.
The programming inside of it consists of punched tapes that run short programs at a time. -
MIT Whirlwind
Source The MIT was a project started in 1945 and reached it;s finish in 1951. The director of the project, Jay Forrester, stated that it runs for 35 hours a week and uses an electrostatic tube memory. -
FORTRAN has been created.
Source Fortran is created by John Backus to help solve extremely difficult mathematical and scientific equations. FOTRAN is still used as a major computer programming language today. -
COBOL is invented.
Source COBOL is a programming language invented by Dr. Grace Murray Hopper. It was invented for the purpose of running major business transactions, telephone systems, traffic lights, and credit card processing. -
This is too BASIC
Source This programming language was created by a group of students at Dartmouth college. It was written into a modded version by Bill Gates and rean the first Apple in 1977. In fact, it's another language used today with Microsoft. -
C is introduced.
Source C is another programming language that is still used today. It was invented by Dennis Ritchie and was evolved from a former programming language called B. -
Arpanet Invented
SourceThe arpanet was the first networkand was developed by U.S. department of defense. It was used for military use at the time. It eventually became today's internet and uses TCP/IP protocol just like today! -
Pascal
Source Niklaus Wirth created this language to be used for education and commercial purposes, This language was named after Blaise Pascal for inventing the first adding machine in 1641. -
Pong. That's it, really.
<a href='http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=gg' >Source</a >Pong is the first video game ever invented (unless there is another). This game would start a trend that may never end and bring joy to users everywhere. -
Xerox Palo Alto
Source The Xerox is among the first of personal computers, but it was one of the earliest to have a moniter and mouse and keyboard. It could be used as work computers and could link to any local area network or LAN -
Commodore 64!
Source The Commodore was a family computer in the 80's. it won a world record for greatest single selling computer model of all time. It was one of the first computers to run games of all kinds. -
NeXT, Apple's failed computer model.
Source The NeXT was a computer that the equivalent of internet explorer of computer models. It ran much too slowly to become popular. -
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(My personal favorite article) SUPER....SMAAAASH BROTHERS!
Source This is a nintendo game that blew many other games out of the water! It is one of the most popular game series to use crossovers since 1999! I'm talking about supper smash brothers by Nintendo. You could pick your favorite hero from multiple nintendo franchises and use their unique moveset to knock other game heroes off the screen. Watch out for those top tier characters! -
Unity, Anyone can make a game!
Source (Yes I know it's not always reliable) In June, the unity webplayer was released to the public.This engine/programming language allowed people of all ages to make their own video game, animation or movie! You can even take old games and refresh them to play on the computer with better animation, voice acting, mechanics, and graphics!
