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Adding Machine
Designed by Blaise Pascal, the machine used gears like a clock to add. The machine only preformed addition. -
Programmable Loom
Joseph Jacquard created punch cards that would tell the loom the pattern to create. -
Difference Engine
Charles Babbage started to work on the Difference engine. It was supposed to calculate values of polynomial functions. It was supposed to calculate numbers to the 20th place and print them at 4 digits per minute. -
Tabulating Machine
Created by Herman Hollerith, the Tabulating Machine used electricity rather then mechanical gears. The machine helped to count 63 million people for the US Census in just 6 weeks. -
Z1 Computer
Kourad Zuse created the first freely programmable computer with electro-mechanical punch tape control -
Mark 1
Developed by IBM and the team was headed by Howard Aiken. The Mark 1 is acknowledged as the first programmable electric computer, The computer was located at Harvard. -
First Computer "Bug"
Grace Hopper found the first computer "bug", it was a moth that had flown inside the computer. We now call problems with computers "bugs". -
ENIAC
The ENIAC solved its first problem in 20 seconds, the same problem would of taken 3 days to solve by hand. The ENIAC weighed 30 tons and was 1500 square feet. -
The Transistor
The Transistor, invented by Bell Laboratories, made computers small and less expensive. -
Modem
The modem came out. -
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov's book, I, Robot, was published and discussed the 3 laws of robotics. -
Squee
Squee is a robot squirrel, that used to light sensors to hunt for "nuts". It worked the best in dark rooms. -
Integrated Circuits
Integrated circuits, or chips, gave computer tremendous speed to process information at a rate of millions of calculations per second. -
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII permits computers from different manufacturers to exchange information back and forth. -
2315 Disk Cartridge
Was a 1MB storage used with certain IBM computers and provided personal storage. -
Microprocessor
Invented by John Huff, the microprocessor was and entire CPU on one chip. this allowed for the micro computer or personal computer to fit on a desk top. -
Pong
Released by Nolan Bushnell pong was the start of modern era video games. -
Hard Disk Drive
Created by Seagate Technology, it help 5MB of data 5 times more then floppy disks. -
C++
C++ was invented. C++ is the programming language used to create most modern video games. -
Pixar
Originally called the special effects computer group, they created Star Trek II and Young Sherlock Holmes. -
World Wide Web
Web as it is known was born. -
Linux
Linus Torvalds released the Linux operating software. It was a free to use OS. -
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
This act became law due to music and video file sharing software. -
Microdrive
Released by IBM the capacity was 170MB or 340MB. It was the smallest hard drive at the time. -
Myspace.com
Developed by Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson based on features from other sites like Friendster. By 2005 Myspace was a major social networking site. -
The Wii
The Nintendo Wii introduced new ways of interacting with video games. -
3G
Mobile data that let the mobile web explode in poplularity with higher speeds. -
Siri
Siri was introduced with the iPhone 4S. Siri is a voice activated personal assistant.
