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Computer and Internet History

By mikellewills

  • Languages

    Konrad Zuse started the first algorithm programming language, Plankalkul.
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    Computers and Software

  • Companies

    Presper Ekhert and John Mauchly founded Ekhert-Mauchly Computer Corp. The company was only able to build the machine BINAC.

  • Computer

    Computer
    At Cambridge University Maurice Wilkes created the very first practical stored-program computer called the EDSAC.
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    Computers

  • Remington Rand

    Remington Rand delivered the UNIVAC I to the United States Census Bureau and was the first commercial computer for widespread attention. Remington sold 46 machines for more than $1 million each.

  • A-0 Compiler

    A-0 Compiler
    Grace Hopper creates the A-0 compiler, this allows the computer to use English words instead of numbers

  • IBM 650

    IBM 650
    The IBM 650 is a magnetic drum calculator which is the first mass produced computer. This computer allowed faster access to stored material.
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    Computers

  • Keyboards

    Direct keyboard input was starting to be experimented at MIT, closest to todays normal use of the keyboard.

  • New Software

    MATH-MATIC is a new version of Grace Hopper's A-0 compilers, created by Sperry Rand. This was a commericial compiler for UNIVAC.

  • ERMA

    ERMA is the Electronis recording Method of Accounting which the Bank of America used for digitalized checking. This created a computer-readable font that would be preprinted on checks.
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    Computers

  • Spacewar

    The first computer game called Spacewar was created by MIT students Slug Russell, Shag Graetz, and Alan Kotok .

  • ASCII

    ASCII
    A way for information to be interchanged was with American Standard Code for Information Interchange, it contains over 128 strings or 1s and 0s which can be used to communicate.
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    Computers

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    Computers

  • HP-35

    HP-35
    The HP-75 was created by Hewlett-Parckard and was able to carry out logorithmic and trigometric functions and able to store solutions for use later.
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    Computers

  • TRS-80

    One of the first successful desktop computers, sold over 10,000 units, and were priced for $599.95.

  • IBM's PC

    Helped speed the growth for the personal computer market and used Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system.

  • Macintosh

    Macintosh
    Apple Computer let the first successful mouse-driven computer out called the Macintosh. The Macintosh included the Motorola 68000 micropocessor along with most of Lisa's features.
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    Computers

  • Pixar

    Pixar is founded by Steve Jobs, where he renamed it from Special Effects Computer Group at Lucasfilm to Pixar. Disney then buys it in 2006.

  • The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web is launched by Tim Berners who developed Hyper Text Markup Language (html). He was able to expand the internet using URL and HTTP.
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    Computers

  • Yahoo

    Yahoo was created by jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo was only on two machines, Akebono and Konishiki. But Yahoo quickly became one the most popular search engines.

  • Wifi

    Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.
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    Computers

  • Mac OS X

    Mac OS X
    Provides protected memory architecture. and multi-tasking reveiled by Apple,

  • Social Media

    Social Media
    Facebook is released and social media becomes popular to consumers. Google Open Social becomes mainstream.

  • Ipad

    Apple reveils the ipad which changes the way consumers looked at convenient media, and jump starting the tablet computer.