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Computer History

By JRamirez175
  • Vannevar Bush

    Vannevar Bush

    Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine. The Difference Engine is a calculator. It prepares numerical tables using a mathematical technique known as the method of difference. Today such tables — the kind often used in navigation and astronomy — would be computed and stored electronically. Nearly a century and a half ago, the Difference Engine did much the same work, but slowly and mechanically.
  • Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer.

    Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer.

    Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape . First freely programmable computer.
  • The Harvard-MARK III

    The Harvard-MARK III

    Howard Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III
  • The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced

    The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced

    Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments to prove that resistors and capacitors could exist on the same piece of semiconductor material. His circuit consisted of a sliver of germanium with five components linked by wires.
  • COBOL

    COBOL

    The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.
  • Steve Russell & MITSpacewar

    Steve Russell & MITSpacewar

    The first computer game invented.
  • ARPAnet

    ARPAnet

    The original Internet
  • NES

    NES

    The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
  • The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web

    The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991
  • Xbox

    Xbox

    Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.