Computer History Timeline

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine.
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine.
  • Donald Watts Davies and Alan Turing

    Donald Watts Davies and Alan Turing
    Donald Watts Davies joins Alan Turing to build the fastest digital computer in England at the time, the Pilot ACE.
  • Hideo Yamachito

    Hideo Yamachito
    The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
  • Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

    Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
    The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce.
  • Steve Russell & MIT

    Steve Russell & MIT
    The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT.
  • Douglas Englebart

    Douglas Englebart
    Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end.)
  • Intel

    Intel
    Intel introduces the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
  • Ray Tomlinson

    Ray Tomlinson
    E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson.