Computer History

By landi

  • ENIAC Completed

    ENIAC Completed
    Source: Computer Hope
    The ENIAC was the first fully functional digital computer. There were previous computers, but it was the first to be fully functional.

  • UNIVAC 1101

    UNIVAC 1101
    Source: http://computer.wikia.com/wiki/UNIVAC_1101
    The UNIVAC was the first computer to store and run programs from memory. It had 786432 KB of memory.

  • FORTRAN

    Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/214283/FORTRAN
    FORTRAN was one of the first programming languages, other than machine code or assembly. It was invented by John Backus, and is still used today.

  • PDP-1

    PDP-1
    Source: http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/DEC-PDP1-1960.htm
    The DEC PDP-1 was the first minicomputer. It was also one of the cheapest computer of the time, at $120000

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    Source: http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/history/arpanet.htm
    The ARPANET was the precursor of the internet. ARPANET was decentralized, unlike previous star or bus network topologies.

  • Unix

    Unix
    Unix was created by Ken Tompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. Unix was made available to educational and research institutions for free in 1975.

  • Email

    Email
    Source: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/firstemail.html
    The first email is sent by Ray Tomlinson. The email probally said something like "QWERTYUIOP".

  • First Microprocessor

    First Microprocessor
    Source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/105029-intel-4004-the-first-cpu-is-40-years-old-today
    Intel manufactured the first microprocessor, called the Intel 4004. It operated at about 92.6 KHz.

  • C

    C
    Source: http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/c/c.html
    C was developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. It is a very powerful language, and is still used very frequently today.

  • Ethernet

    Ethernet
    Source: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~ross/Ethernet/history.htm
    The Ethernet is a protocol that is commonly used in LAN networks. It was invented by Xerox.

  • Altair 8800

    Altair 8800
    The Altair 8800 is the first PC. It was only $439, and came as a build-it-yourself kit.

  • Osborne I

    Osborne I
    http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.htmlThe Osborne I was the first laptop computer, was developed by Adam Osborne, and cost $179, but with was sold with $1500 of software, raising the price to $1795. It weighed 24.5 pounds, had a 5" LCD screen, two 91 KB floppy drives, and a modem.

  • Phrack

    Phrack
    Source: http://phrack.org/
    Phrack is an online zine written primarily for hackers. It is full of interesting articles on programming, security, and numerous other topics.

  • WWW

    WWW
    The world wide web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. The web is made of three fundamental technologies; HTML, URI, and HTTP.

  • Linux

    Linux
    Linux is an opensource OS created by Linus Torvalds. It is one of the best operating systems around, as it is stable and has different distros for different needs.