History of Computer:

Year
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Evolution
Leonardo Da Vinci makes drawing of 13 digit cog-wheeled adder Napiers Bones Slide Rule France citizen Blaise Pascal invented a machine called Pascaline Leibnitz Wheel Charles Babbage was born Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards. Charles Babbage invents the Difference Engine George Boole is born Ada Lovelace is born Thomas de Colmar creates the first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine. Joseph Henry of Princeton invents the first working telegraph Semen Korsakov uses punch cards for the first time to store and search for information Charles Babbage passes away The microphone is invented in the United States by Emile Berliner Herman Hollerith starts the Tabulating Machine Company, the company later becomes the well-known computer company IBM (International Business machines) Howard H. Aiken was born Company now known as IBM on is founded in the state of New York as the Computing Tabulating - Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company. Zuse Z1 Konrad Zuse Z3 (Germany) Atanasoft-Berry Computer (ABC) ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator begins to be constructed. This computer by most is considered to be the first electronic computer Mark I Computer The first binary, and partially programmable computer, Colossus, was created at Bletchley Park Zuse Z4 The Von Neumann Architecture is introduced in John von Neumann's report of the EDVAC The term bug as computer bug was termed by Grace Hopper when programming the MARK II Patent is filed for the Harvard Mark I digital computer on ENIAC 1 Computer The Transistor IBM builds the SSEC (Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator). The computer contains 12,000 tubes Andrew Donald Booth creates magnetic drum memory, which is two inches long and two inches wide and capable of holding 10 bits per inch.

1948 May 6, 1949 Nov 1949 1950 1951 1951 1951 May 11, 1951 1952 1952 April 7, 1953 1953 1953 1954 1954 1954 Oct 7, 1954 1955 1955 1955 1955 Feb 24, 1955 Mar 8, 1955 Oct 28, 1955 1958 1959/60 1960 1960 1960 1961/66 1962 1962 1962 Apr 7, 1964 May 1, 1964

Manchester Baby Computer & The Williams Tube The EDSAC performs its first calculation CSIRAC The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito The first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is completed by T. Raymond Thompson, John Simmons and their team at Lyons Co UNIVAC The EDVAC begins performing basic tasks Jay Forrester applies for a patent for magnetic core memory, the first random access memory (RAM) Geoffrey Dummer a British radar engineer introduces the concept of the integrated circuit at a tech conference in the United States Alexander Sandy Douglas created the first graphical computer game of Tic-Tac-Toe on an EDSAC known as "OXO." IBM introduces the 701 to the public The 701 is IBM's first electric computer and first mass produced computer A magnetic memory smaller and faster than existing vacuum tube memories is built at MIT The IBM 701 becomes available to the scientific community. A total of 19 are produced and sold IBM produces and markets the IBM 650. More than 1,800 of these computers are sold in an eight-year span The first version of FORTRAN (formula translator) is published by IBM IBM becomes the first company to translate Russian into English using a computer IBM introduces its first calculating machine that uses solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes ERMA and MICR John McCarthy coins the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Dartmouth University IBM introduces the first IBM 702 Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer. Transistors are faster, smaller and create less heat than traditional vacuum tubes, making these computers more reliable and efficient Steve Jobs is born MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics William (Bill) H. Gates is born The Integrated Circuit COmmon Business- Oriented Language (COBOL) was released IBMs 1400 series machines, aimed at the business market begin to be distributed NASA launches TIROS, the first weather satellite into space AT&T introduces the dataphone and the first known MODEM E-mail Space war Computer Game AT&T places first commercial communications Satellite, the Telstar I into orbit Philips invents the compact audio cassette tape IBM introduces its System/360, the first of its computers to use interchangeable software and peripheral equipment Dartmouth Universitys John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC) and run it for the first time

1964 1967 1968 1969 May 1, 1969 Jul 3, 1969 1970 1971 1971 1971 1972 1972 1972 1972 1973 1973 1974 1974 Apr 1, 1974 1974/75 1975 1976 1976 1976 1976 Feb 3, 1976 Apr 1, 1976 Nov 26, 1976 1976/1977 1978 1978 Jun 1978 1979 1980 1980 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981

Mouse & Windows IBM creates the first floppy disk Intel Corporation is founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Arpanet Gary Starkweather, while working with Xerox invents the laser printer UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on Intel 1103 Computer Memory Intel 4004 Computer Micro-processor The first 8" floppy diskette drive was introduced Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail, the first messaging system to send messages across a network to other users. Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs invents the C programming language ARPA is renamed to DARPA The programming language FORTRAN 66 is created. The compact disc is invented in the United States The Ethernet Computer Networking IBM introduces its 3660 Supermarket System, which uses a laser to read grocery prices and UPC bar codes The first Toshiba floppy disk drive is introduced A commercial version of ARPANET known as Telenet is introduced and considered by many to be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) Intel's improved microprocessor chip is introduced the 8080 becomes a standard in the computer industry Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair and IBM 5100 Computer Paul Allen and Bill Gates write the first computer language program for personal computers, which is a form of BASIC designed for the Altair The original Apple computer company logo of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree is replaced by the well known rainbow colored apple with a bite out of it The first 5.25-inch floppy disk is invented Microsoft introduces an improved version of BASIC Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer David Bunnell publishes an article by Bill Gates complaining about software piracy in his Computer Notes Altair newsletter Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers Microsoft officially drops the hyphen in Micro-soft and trademarks the Microsoft name Apple I, II and TRS-80 and Commodore Pet Computer VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Microsoft introduces a new version of COBOL Apple introduces Apple DOS 3.1, the first operating system for the Apple computers WordStar Software IBM hires Microsoft to develop versions of BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal for the PC being developed by IBM The first Tandy Color computer is introduced Jeff Dailey, a 19-year old becomes the first person to die from computer gaming after dying from a heart attack after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk IBM PC- Home Computer MS-DOS Computer Operating System Osborne 1 Hewlett-Packard Superchip the first 32-bit chip is introduced

Jul 27, 1981 Aug, 1981 1982 1982 1982 Feb 1, 1982 Jul 9, 1982 Aug 17, 1982 1983 1983 Jan 26, 1983 1984 1984 1984 Jan 24, 1984 Mar 29, 1984 1985 Nov1985 Nov, 1988 Nov 30, 1985 1990 Sep 10, 1990 1996 1996 Jan 1997 May 7, 1997 July 16, 1997. 1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 Dec1997 1998 Jun 25, 1998 1999

Microsoft buys the rights for QDOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000 on MS-DOS 1.0 was released Microsoft releases FORTRAN for the PC COBOL for MS-DOS, and Multiplan for the Apple II and CP/M machines WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program that will become one of the computer markets most popular word processing program Rich Skrenta a 15-year old high school student creates the first known computer virus known as The Elk Cloner The Intel 80286 is introduced Disney releases the movie Tron on the first movie to use computer generated special effects Philips factory in Germany creates the world's first compact disc Apple releases the Lisa computer, the first commercial computer with a GUI The QIC Standard becomes the first standard in the computer history for tape drives Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program is introduced Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 3.0 for the IBM PC AT and MS-DOS 3.1 for networks IBM introduces the Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) video card with higher resolution, more colors, and a quicker response then previous video cards University of Southern California professor Fred Cohen creates alarm when he warns the public about computer viruses in his Computer Virus - Theory and Experiments paper The Apple Macintosh is introduced Microsoft creates a new hardware and peripheral division Dell releases its first computer, the "Turbo PC." Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced MS-DOS 4.01 was released Microsoft releases the first version of Microsoft Excel on the Apple Macintosh Microsoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems The first search engine Archie, written by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal Canada is released Microsoft introduces the IntelliMouse also known as a wheel mouse Microsoft Windows CE 1.0 is released as a portable operating system solution. HTTP/1.1 is specified in RFC 2616 and officially released Intel Pentium II is introduced Microsoft releases DirectX 5.0 (4.05.00.0155) Microsoft releases Microsoft Office 97 and Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft announces Windows 98. Apple releases MAC OS 8 The Intel Pentium II 233 MHz processor is released. Microsoft Windows CE 2.x is released. Microsoft acquires Hotmail a free e-mail service Rockstar Games is founded Microsoft Windows 98 is officially released Microsoft releases Windows CE 3.0.

Mar 18, 1999 Feb 07, 2000 Feb 17, 2000. Jun 2000. Jun 19, 2000 Nov 9, 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001 Jan 1, 2001 Mar 9, 2001 Mar 24, 2001 Aug 2001 Aug 27, 2001 Apr 11, 2001 Apr 20, 2001 Aug 2001 Sep 25, 2001 Oct 25, 2001 Nov 15, 2001 Dec 4, 2001 2002 2002 2002 Feb 2002 Mar 02, 2002 Aug 23, 2002. Sep 23, 2002 Dec 2002 Dec 19, 2002 2003 Jan 2003 Feb 17, 2003 Mar 2003 Mar 28, 2003 Mar 28, 2003

Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 5.0 CNR is introduced by Intel Microsoft Windows 2000 was released Microsoft introduces C# to the public Microsoft releases Windows ME Microsoft release DirectX 8 USB 2.0 is introduced Airlines begin to implement methods of gaining Internet access while flying Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2002) for Itanium systems is released AST Computers goes. out of business and stops selling computers Microsoft announces on Windows 95 is now a legacy item and will no longer be sold or shipped to any more customers McAfee releases first handheld virus protection software. Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah and becomes SATA 1.0 is introduced Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6.0 Microsoft announces that it will no longer include Clippy with future releases of Microsoft Office. Dell Computers becomes the largest PC maker SATA 1.0 is introduced Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.1 code named Puma and becomes available Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released Microsoft releases the original Xbox game console The "Goner" virus is first discovered and ends up costing an estimated eighty-million dollars in damage The first Trackback is used on Movable Type Hitachi closes deal to purchase IBM's hard disk drive operation for $2.05 billion Cartoon turtle named "Dewie" introduced to help promote Internet safety and security Google releases its first hardware device called the Google Search Appliance Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP's files for bankruptcy and closes its doors Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.2 code named Jaguar and becomes available The first of code that would later become Mozilla Firefox is made available Google introduces Froogle, which allows users to search for stuff to buy. Microsoft releases DirectX 9 Intel announces the new BTX form factor. The Slammer worm is first released and becomes the fastest spreading worm in history after infecting hundreds of thousands of computers in less than three hours. Google acquires Blogger Intel Pentium M Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (Version 2003) for Itanium 2 systems is released Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is released

Apr 6, 2003 Apr 16, 2003 Jul 15, 2003 Jun 30, 2003. Oct 17, 2003 Oct 24, 2003 Oct 25, 2003 Nov 18, 2003 Dec 18, 2003. 2004 2004 2004 Jan 2004 Feb 1, 2004 Feb 4, 2004 Mar 2004 April 1, 2004 Apr 2, 2004 Jun 14, 2004 Jun 28, 2004 Oct 2004, Oct 12, 2004. Oct 13, 2004 Nov 9, 2004 Dec 08, 2004. 2005 Feb 8, 2005 Feb 15, 2005 Mar 21, 2005. Apr 23, 2005. Apr 24, 2005 May 2005 Jun 6, 2005. Jul 23, 2005 Aug 25, 2005. Sep 2005 Nov 2005.

The first computer is infected with the Spybot worm The first computer is infected with the Spybot worm The Mozilla Foundation is officially formed on The Safari Internet browser is released Apple adds iTunes support for Microsoft Windows computers On the Sober computer worm is first discovered, a computer worm written in Visual Basic and distributed through e-mail. Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.3 code named Panther Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD) standard is announced on as a planned replacement for DVD. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003 is released Google now indexes 8 billion web pages. Google acquires Picasa. Intel starts the development of the BTX form factor. Google jumps into the Social Networking with the release of Orkut The Mydoom computer virus with 250,000 infected computer begin to dos attack the SCO site Mark Zuckerberg launches Thefacebook which later becomes Facebook The photo sharing site Flickr is launched Google announces Gmail on Many people take it as an April Fools joke. PC Maker Gateway closes all its retail stores The Cabir aka SymbOS/Cabir virus and fist known cell phone virus is discovered and is capable of spreading to other Symbian phones over Bluetooth. Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.4 code named Tiger at the WWDC Google acquires Keyhole in which later becomes Google Earth. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released Internet site Yelp is launched Firefox 1.0 is first introduced IBM sells its computing division to Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion Google acquires Urchin in which later becomes Google Analytics. Google Maps is launched YouTube is founded and comes online Yahoo announces that it will acquire the popular photo service Flickr The first YouTube video entitled "Me at the zoo" is uploaded Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is released Google introduces its Personalized Homepage which is now known as iGoogle. Apple announces it plans on switching its computer to the Intel processors Microsoft announces its next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista The Pandora Internet Radio service is launched Google hires DARPA veteran Vint Cerf to carry on his quest for a global open Internet. Google releases Google Analytics

Nov 16, 2005 2006 Jan 5, 2006 Mar 2006 Mar 31, 2006 Apr 2006. Apr 5, 2006. Apr 22, 2006. May 8, 2006. May 16, 2006 Jul 15, 2006. Jul 27, 2006. Jul 29, 2006. Oct 1, 2006. Oct 9, 2006 Oct 18, 2006 Oct 23, 2006. Oct 26, 2006 Oct 31, 2006 Nov 11, 2006 Nov 14, 2006 Nov 30, 2006. Dec 13, 2006 Dec 13, 2006, Jan 1,2007 Jan 21, 2007. Jan 30, 2007 Mar 4, 2007 Apr 22, 2007 May 25, 2007 May 22, 2007. Jul 22, 2007. Oct 21, 2007. Oct 26, 2007 Nov 16, 2007.

Microsoft releases the Xbox 360, the second generation of their popular game console Google introduces Picasa Intel introduces the Intel Core and Viiv Google announces acquisition of Writely which becomes the basis for Google Docs. Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in Japan Google launches Google Calendar Apple announces Boot Camp, which will allow users to run Windows XP on their computers Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E6320 (4M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) Dell purchases Alienware Toshiba releases the first HD DVD player in a computer computer with the introduction of the Toshiba Qosmio 35 Twttr, now known as Twitter is officially launched Intel introduces the Intel Core 2 Duo processors with the Core 2 Duo Processor E6300 (2M Cache, 1.86 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) The Intel Core 2 Extreme is first released The GIF standard and pictures becomes officially free Google announces plans to purchase YouTube for 1.65 Billion Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is introduced Google launches its Custom Search Engine service U.S. President George W. Bush signs the USA Patriot Act into law giving law enforcement reduced restrictions on searching telephone, e-mail, and other forms of communication and records. Google acquires JotSpot which later becomes Google Sites. Sony releases the PlayStation 3 Microsoft released its portable Zune media player. Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista to corporations TIME magazine names "You" as the person of the year with the continued growth and success of community driven websites and content. Google introduces Patent search which searches over 7 million patents. Apple announces in that it will drop computer from its name as it becomes a company who deals with more than computers. Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4300 (2M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to the general public Estonia becomes the first country to conduct an election over the Internet Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4400 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) Google releases Google Street View that allows visitors of Google Maps to view of an area looks like Google releases Google Trends Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4500 (2M Cache, 2.20 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4600 (2M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.5 code named Leopard The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is introduced to the public

Feb 19, 2008. Feb 27, 2008. Mar 1, 2008. Mar 2, 2008. Mar 8, 2008 Apr 20,2008 June 9 2008 Aug 10, 2008 Aug 28, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 Oct 19, 2008. Dec 11, 2008. 2009 2009 Jan 18, 2009 Mar 11, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 May 31, 2009 Jul 7, 2009. Jul 7, 2009. Jun 3, 2009 Aug 28, 2009 Sep 19, 2009 Sep 30, 2009 Oct 22,2009 Nov 5, 2009. Dec 2, 2009 2010 Feb 9, 2010 Jun 24, 2010. Jan. 27, 2010 June 30, 2010. Oct 11, 2010 Oct 11, 2010 Oct 13, 2010. Oct 28, 2010. Nov 12, 2010.

The HD player war comes to an end when HD DVD calls it quit, making Blu-ray the victor Microsoft release the Worldwide Telescope (WWT) program AOL ends support for the Netscape Internet browser Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E4700 (2M Cache, 2.60 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) Hulu website is released to the Public Intel releases the Core 2 Do E7200 (3M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) Apple introduced Mac OS X 10.6 code names Snow Leopard MobileMe at the WWDC Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7300 Apple introduced its latest line of Apple iMac Google releases the Beta version of Chrome Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7400 (3M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) Google releases the first public version of Chrome Facebook overtakes MySpace in Internet Traffic Google announces plans to acquire reCAPATCHA. Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7500 (3M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) Google Vice based off Grand Central is launched Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer 8 Intel releases the Core2 Duo Processor E7600 (3M Cache, 3.06 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) After more than five years in beta, Gmail finally gets out of beta Google announces the Google Chrome OS Microsoft Launches the Bing Search Engine Apple removes support for AppleTalk with its introduction of Mac OS X v10.6 that also is the first version of the Mac OS that no longer supports PowerPC processors. Microsoft release Virtual PC Microsoft releases MSE Microsoft released Windows 7 Steve Jobs is named CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine Rocket Software acquires Folio and NXT from Microsoft Apple announces over 10 billion tracks have been downloaded from iTunes. Google Buzz Apple introduces the iPhone 4 Apple introduced the iPad Woot.com announces it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Amazon.com Microsoft announces its intention to release ten Windows Phone 7 across 30 countries Amazon releases a press release July 19, 2010 mentioning it is now selling more Kindle books than hardcover books First all-robotic surgery performed at Montreal General Hospital MachinimaSports becomes the 1 billionth subscriber on YouTube Planet Calypso a virtual planet in the game Entropia becomes the most valuable virtual

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item selling for $635,000.00 USD Watson, an IBM Super computer beats the two best human Jeopardy players in a three day event with a score greater than the two human players combined Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft announces plans to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Steve Jobs resigns as Apples CEO due to health reasons Steve Jobs passes away at the age of 56