ccrockett Programming History Timeline Assignment

  • First computer/ Mahcine

    Joseph Marie jacquard invented the jacquard loom a mechanical automated loom
  • First computer to solve equations

    the first electronic digital computer the Atanasoff-berry computer was made to solve linear equations
  • In WW2

    During WW2 The colossus machines were the first programmable electronic digital computers
  • First Computer Game

    A game called Spacewar took 200 man hours to make and you had to destroy the other spaceship to win
  • First Circuitd

    The first integrated circuit was produced in 1958, but computers using them didn't begin to appear until 1963
  • First commercial 16 bit Computer

    In November 1966, Hewlett Packard introduced the 2116A minicomputer, one of the first commercial 16 bit computers
  • Ethernet

    invention of the ethernet
  • First Computer Virus Programmer

    Fred Cohen designed the a hidden program that could infect the computer copy itself the spread via floppy disk
  • HIGH SPEED NETWORKING

    Advanced Network and Servives is formed by Merit, IBM and MCI to develop high speed networking
  • Internet

    The internet society is formed and world wide web is released
  • Online Pizza?

    Pizza Hut offers pizza ordering
  • Free Wi-Fi

    Wireless internet access Wi-Fi is standardized