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HP founded
HPThe company HP, or Hewlett-packard is founded by Bill hewlett and Dave Packard, two Stanford graduate students. Their first product, the HP 200A was built in a garage in Palo Alto, California and was first used by Walt Disney Studios to develop the sound system for the movie, Fantasia. -
First computer invented
WikipediaThe Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was invented for military purposes and was built at the University of Pennsylvania and cost $500,000. Many consider the ENIAC to be the first computer invented, although many others argue that the first computer invented was the ABC computer. -
IBM releases its first computer
About.comIBM ships its first electronic computer, the IBM 701. It's invention was due to the Korean war effort and was termed by Thomas Johnson Watson, Jr., its inventor as a "defense calculator" to aid in the UN's policing of Korea -
World's first packet-switching network
Yahoo!ARPAnet was established as the first packet-switching network, which allowed data to travel on any route available in order to find its destination on the network. It is known to be the predecessor to the internet, the world's largest WAN, or Wide Area Network. -
Ethernet invented
About.comEthernet was created to connect computers within close proximity to each other (same building) to a Local Area Network, or LAN. It uses cables and other hardware to establish a physical connection between the computers. -
First Personal Computer
Computer HopeThe Altair 8800 with the Intel 8080 processor, developed by Henry Edward Roberts was the first PC, or personal computer, and started the personal computer revolution. It had a series of switches for inputting data and data was output by a series of lights, which was turned on and off. -
Apple Inc. was established
WikipediaThe Apple company was established by founders Steve Jobs, Steve wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Starting with the Apple I computers, they grew to be a world famous company, which ever since their creation, have been in constant rivalry with Microsoft. -
The first Apple computer
Computer HopeApple I, the first computer by the world famoud company, Apple, was designed and created by Steve Wozniak. Although the computer had a compelety assembled curcuit board, external peripherals such as monitor, keyboard, and power supply were needed to operate the computer. It was Wozniak's friend, Steve Jobs' idea to sell the computer for $666.66 -
First Laptop Computer
Computer HistoryAdam Osborne releases the first portable computer, or laptop computer, the Osborne I. It included a 5 inch display, 64 KB of memory, and two 5 1/2 inch floppy disk drives. It was priced at $1,795 and weighed 24 pounds, and it also came with software of about $1,500 of value. -
The first home computer with GUI
WikipediaThe Apple Lisa, the first home computer to offer a GUI was released. Steve jobs became inspired to develop Lisa after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, where he saw the first computer with a GUI, the Xerox Alto, in action. -
WiFi invented
Wil-Corp, IncInitially meant for use in cashier systems, WiFi, which was invented by the NCR corporation and AT&T, allowed computers to connect to a Local Area Network without the use of cables and wires (ethernet). Today, WiFi dominates wireless networking, as almost all homes, restaurants, businesses, etc. have it set up for wireless use of the internet. -
Linux released
Computer History MuseumLinux, an operating system designed and created by Finnish university student, Linus Torvalds, was released to several internet newsgroups. In 1992, Linux became open source (free) and was modified and tweaked to be much more stable. It continues to be one of the most popular operating systems due to it being open source. -
First iPod by Apple
WikipediaApple releases the first iPod with a 5GB hard drive, capable of holding up to a 1000 songs. It was primarily created, because digital music players of the time were "big and chunky" or "small and useless." It was also developed within just 1 year of the original idea. -
first iPad released
WikipediaApple releases the WiFi version of the first generation iPad. The display featured a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixel density. The touch screen was designed to be interacted only with bare fingers, even though there are special styli which work with the iPad. It runs the mobile operating system, iOS, which is the same operating system used on the iphones. -
Intel releases Sandy Bridge processors
Computer hopeIntel releases the improved sandy bridge versions of its core i3, core i5, and core i7 processors. It has a 17% better performance compared to the previous versions of the i3/i5/i7 processors. They use the LGA 1155 socket type and feature dual core, quad core, and six core capabilities.
