The History of the Computer- By Zoe González

First Commercial Computer

Oct 22, 1947

1947-1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley: First commercial computer and able to pick presidential winners.
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The Chip

Sep 12, 1958

1958- Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce: they created the chip. http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

Fisrt Computer Game

Feb 1, 1962

1962- Steve Russell and MIT: the first computer game.
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Computer Mouse

Jan 1, 1964

1964- Douglas Engelbart: he created the mouse.
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Apple I, II

Jan 1, 1976

1976-1977 (Apple I, II) the first consumer computers.
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Apple Macintosh Computer

Jan 1, 1984

1984- (Apple Macintosh Computer) The more affordable home computer with a GUI.
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Microsoft vs Apple

Jan 1, 1985

1985- Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
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Pixar is founded

Jan 1, 1986

1986- Pixar is founded. Pixar was originally called the Special Effects Computer Group at Lucas film (launched in 1979). The group created the computer animated segments of films such as “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Young Sherlock Holmes.”
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Thinking Machines Corp.

Jan 1, 1986

1986- Daniel Hillis of Thinking Machines Corp. moved artificial intelligence a step forward when he developed the controversial concept of massive parallelism in the Connection Machine. The machine used up to 65,536 processors and could complete several billion per second.
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Motorola

Jan 1, 1987

1987- Motorola unveiled the 68030 microprocessor. A step from the 68020, it built on a 32- bit enhanced microprocessor. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/

Steve Jobs

Jan 1, 1987

1987- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. The computer he created failed but was recognized as an important innovation. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/

Tin Toy

Jan 1, 1987

1987- Pixar’s “Tin Toy” became the first computer- animated film to win an Academy Award, taking the Oscar for best animated short film.
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Intel

Jan 1, 1989

1989- Intel released the 80486 microprocessor and the i860 RISC/ coprocessor chip, each of which contained more than 1 million transistors.
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Motorola (68040)

Jan 1, 1989

1989- Motorola announced the 68040 microprocessor, with about 1.2 million transistors. Due to technical difficulties, it didn’t ship until 1991.
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Sim City

Jan 1, 1989

1989- Maxis released SimCity, a video game that helped launch of series of simulators. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/

Video Toaster

Jan 1, 1990

1990- Video Toaster is introduced by NewTek. The video Toaster was video editing and production system for Amiga line of computers and included a hardware and special software. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/

Windows 3.0

May 22, 1990

1990- Microsoft shipped Windows 3.0 on May 22 compatible with DOS programs, the first successful version of Windows finally offered good enough performance to satisfy PC users. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/

PGP

Jan 1, 1991

1991- Pretty Good Privacy was introduced. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/-

Facebook

Feb 1, 2004

2004- Facebook is an online social networking service. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Instagram

Apr 9, 2012

2012- Facebook acquired Instagram for 1000 thousands of dollars (9 April). -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook-