Technology History Project

Computers - ENIAC

Jan 1, 1946

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ENIAC filled an entire room with its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer and John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the machine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946.

Networking - AT&T's Dataphone

Dec 1, 1960

SourceAT&T designed its Dataphone, the first commercial modem, made for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network. In December 1960, AT&T had just announced an investment of $2.5 billion for satellite communications.

Language - ASCII (Binary)

Jan 1, 1963

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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It permits machines from different manufactures to exchange data. ASCII consists of 128 strings of ones and zeros.

Language - BASIC

May 1, 1964

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On May 1, 1964, Thomas Kurtz and Johnny Kemeny created BASIC. It's a computer programming language that can develop custom software on computers that people can afford. It also developed some gaming systems, like the Nintendo Famicom.

Arpanet - 1st Internet Invented

Oct 29, 1969

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The U.S. Department made the first network for military purposes. The network is called the ARPANET and eventually turned into today's Internet.

Networking - First E-mail Sent

Jun 11, 1971

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Ray Tomlinson of research firm Bolt received credit for sending the first email message over to a military network called ARPANET. He's the one who decided to use the "@" sign for email. Tomlinson alsi said that the contents of the first email were something like "QWERTYUIOP"

Language - CP/M

Jan 1, 1976

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Developed by Gary Kildall, C/PM is mainly an operating system for perosonal computers. CP/M stands for "Control Program for Microcomputers". It now has multi-user variations and 16-bit processors.

The first Dot-Com

Mar 15, 1985

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The first dot-com domain name is registered on March 15, years before the World Wide Web would mark the formal beginning of Internet history. 100 dot-coms had been registered.

Software - Windows 3.0

May 22, 1990

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The first successful version of Windows finally offered good enough performance to satisfy PC users. For the new version, Microsoft created a design that allowed PCs to support large graphical applications for the first time. It also allowed multiple programs to run simultaneously on its Intel 80386 microprocessor.

Language - HTML

Sep 21, 1990

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The World Wide Web came to life when Tim Berners-Lee, developed HyperText Markup Language (HTML). HTML allowed the Internet to expand into the World Wide Web, using specifications he developed such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator).

Language - Java

Jan 1, 1995

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James Gosling developed Java. It is designed to let this compiled Java code run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

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Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. It's an online social networking service where users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles.

Instagram

Oct 6, 2010

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Instagram was developed by Facebook on October 6, 2010. It's a photo and video social networking app that is available in 25 different languages.

Language - Hack

Mar 20, 2014

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Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), created by Facebook. It allows programmers to use both dynamic typing and static typing.

AOL

May 24, 2015

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AOL, also known as America Online, was developed by Tim Armstrong. It's a worldwide search engine and media.