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The History Of The Comuter
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First Global Networking
The first global network was established using electrical telegraphy and global span was achieved in 1899. The telephony network was the second to achieve global status, in the 1950s. -
First Computer Mouse
The trackball, a related pointing device, was invented in 1946 by Ralph Benjamin Benjamin's project used analogue computers to calculate the future position of target aircraft based on several initial input points provided by a user with a joystick. Benjamin felt that a more elegant input device was needed and invented a ball tracker called roller ball for this purpose. The device was patented in 1947, but only a prototype using a metal ball rolling on two rubber-coated wheels was ever built. -
First Computer Game
There are numerous debates over which game should be considered the first video game. The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube. The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948. The game was a missile simulator inspired by radar displays from World War II. It used analogue circuitry, not digital, to control the CRT beam and position a dot on the screen. Screen overlays were used for targets si -
Invention of the Integrated Circuit
The idea was born Werner Jacobi developed the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949. These ideas could not be implemented by the industry in the early 1950s, but a breakthrough came in late 1958. -
First Hard Drive
In 1953 IBM recognized the immediate application for what it termed a "Random Access File" having high capacity and rapid random access at a relatively low cost. After considering technologies such as wire matrices, rod arrays, drums and drum arrays the engineers at IBM's San Jose California laboratory invented the hard disk drive. The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed Random Access Storage but today known as secondary storage, less expensive and slower t -
Invention of Email
Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since 1993 is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. The AUTODIN network, first operational in 1962, provided a message service between 1,350 terminals, handling 30 million messages per month, with an average message length of approximately 3,000 characters. -
First Laptop
As the personal computer became feasible in 1971. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1968, The IBM Special Computer APL Machine Portable, was demonstrated in 1973. The IBM 5100, the first commercially available portable computer, appeared in September 1975 -
Apple 1 Released
Apple was established on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. The Apple I kits were computers single handily designed and hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. -
The Fouding of Google
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. -
Facebook Reaches 500 MiIlion Users
Facebook reached 500million users on about the 4th of May 2010
