Computer History Project

By crayons121
  • Electronic Digital Computer Created

    Electronic Digital Computer Created

    LinkJohn V. Atanasoff made the first automatic electronic digital computer. He was involved in many court cases before he was declared the inventor and the owner of the patent. He made this in Iowa State College.
  • Einiac Invented

    Einiac Invented

    LinkThe Electrical Numeric Integrator And Computer was invented for the military. It cost $500,000, and it was built in secret by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
  • First Transistor Computer Created

    First Transistor Computer Created

    LinkThe transistor computer was energy efficient. It was introduced by Bell Labs.
  • ARPANET Acheived

    ARPANET Acheived

    Link ARPANET is considered to be the earliest version of the modern-day Internet. The US Department of Defense developed ARPANET.
  • First Email Sent

    First Email Sent

    LinkIn 1970, the first email was sent by a man named Ray Tomlinson. Email integration into ARPANET took place three years after this, in 1973.
  • Altair Accomplished

    Altair Accomplished

    LinkAltair is considered by many to be the first personal computer. It was developed in a company called Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS), and it was featured in magazines. To buy an Altair meant a user had to painstakingly assemble it.
  • IBM Makes History

    IBM Makes History

    LinkIBM creates the first portable computer, or laptop - IBM 5100. The price of this device was anywhere from 11,000 dollars to 20,000 dollars.
  • Cell Phone Hits the Market

    Cell Phone Hits the Market

    LinkThe first cellular device was clunky and expensive. Created by Motorola, this cell phone had once cost $3995 and weighed two pounds.
  • First Mac Released

    First Mac Released

    LinkThe Macintosh was a personal computer devloped and marketed by Apple. This computer was very commercially sucessful because of its use with a mouse and graphical user interface.
  • Wi-Fi Introduced

    Wi-Fi Introduced

    LinkThe earlier versions of Wi-Fi were very susceptible to hackers. Vic Hayes is called the "Father of Wi-Fi" by some because of his involvement with it.
  • World Wide Web Introduced

    World Wide Web Introduced

    LinkThe World Wide Web was invented by scientists at CERN. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau developed it, and they won a number of awards.
  • iMac Manufactured

    iMac Manufactured

    LinkThe iMac was a big step forward for Apple. Its appearance has been praised by critics.
  • Windows PowerShell Develops

    Windows PowerShell Develops

    LinkMicrosoft creates Windows PowerShell. This is cosidered to be one of the most important computing events that happened in the 2000s.
  • iPad Released

    iPad Released

    LinkThe Apple iPad was released on this day. 300,000 iPads were sold on the first day of availability. The name was inspired by the fictional PADD in Star Trek.
  • iPhone 4s Sells

    iPhone 4s Sells

    Link The iPhone 4S is the predecessor of the iPhone 5. It was created by Apple, and it was a huge sucess.