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The first electronic computer was created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
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IBM 701 The IBM 701 became commercially available to the scientific community
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NASA Sputnik I and Sputnik II were launched by the Russians
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General Motors put the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory.
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Spacewar Computer Game invented by Steve Russell & MIT
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IBM introduced the first word processor
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RAM Intel introduced the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
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Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson
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Atari released Pong, the first commercial video game
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Portable Computer The Microsoft Corporation founded by Bill Gates and produced the first portable computer
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Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs and soon after they released Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics
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First Laptop invented by Adam Osborne
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WordPerfect Corporation introduced WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program
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Microsoft Windows introduced eliminating the need for a user to have to type each command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate through drop-down menus, tabs and icons
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Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface
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WWW The World Wide Web is launched to the public
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YAHOO was created
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Amazon.com was created by Jeff Bezos
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History Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod.
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History Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates in Harvard University.
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History YouTube, the online video sharing and viewing community, was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
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The first iPhone was released.
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The first Android was released.
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The iPad went on sale in the United States.
