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The word cumputer
The word "Cumputer" was first recorded referring to a person who made calculations. -
Jacquard develops Loom
Jacquard's loom invention was controlled by punch cards. This new invetion allowed the loom to work much faster. We decided to look more into this because we found it interesting. -
first electronic digital computer
John Atanasoff built the first electronic digital computer. This was the first digital cumputer made. It marks a important milestone in cumputer history. -
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculater. This allowed people to do basic mathatiques. This is important because it was the first machanical calculater. -
ENIAC
The ENIAC was the first cumputer invented which took up awhole room. It was able to solve multiple problems. We decided to put this in our timeline because we were interested in what cumputers used to be like -
Formal Laungue for Computers
C.A.A Horae developed the formal language for computers called Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and Quicksort. -
World Wide Web
The Worldwide Web was created by Tim Burnes Lee. The World Wide Web allowed people to look at pictures, videos , and web pages and navagate throughout them by using Hyperlinks. The World Wide allowed the internet to become popular. -
Yahoo
Yahoo was founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. It started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" . This is important because today it is used often. -
Stark Hand
Mark Stark created this with provides a comfertable and alternative to handicapped people. This allows people to do things they could not due to their disability. -
Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper created the term debugging. And after leaving the Army she helped create UNIVAC the first commerical cumputer.