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Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine, considered as the first computer was designed by Charles Babbage. -
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Computer Science history
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Ada Lovelace writes the first computer program
Ada Lovelace took interest in the analytical engine, and when asked to translate his work to an italian engineer, she also anexed her own notes in how to program the engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, this is considered the first computer program and the first algorithm ever written -
Boolean algebra invented
George Boole publishes his boolean algebra, which is used for programming to date. -
Computer Science born!
“On computable numbers,” often considered the founding document of computer science; the paper gives an explicit construction of a universal Turing machine. -
First Programmable Computer
Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer was set operational at Blecthey Park -
Transistor Invented!
At Bell Labs, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor -
First Compiler invented!
Grace Murray Hopper creates A-O, considered the first compiler -
Hard drive invented!
Reynold Johnson at IBM introduces the hard drive -
First High level programming language!
A team led by John Backus at IBM delivers a compiler FORTRAN, the first high level progamming language -
First Computer Game!
A team led by MIT student Steve Russell creates Spacewar!, the first computer game -
First electronic calculator
Texas instruments invent the first electronic calculator -
First Floppy Disk created
IBM launches the first floppy disc -
First email sent!
Ray Tomlinson sends the first email message on ARPANET -
IBM-PC Released
IBM PC released using Microsoft's MS-DOS -
Compact Disk created!
Sony and Phillip launch the compact disk commercially -
C++ Invented
Bjarne Stroustroup invented the most dominating object oriented programming language at Bell Labs -
First Personal computer!
Macintosh releases the first personal computer with mouse/windows interface -
Microsoft launches Windows
Microsoft launches its first version of windows -
Napster launched
Napster is launched with its revolutionizing peer-to-peer technology and its brand new MP3 format -
Facebook launched
Facebook launched by Mark Zuckerburg -
Youtube launched
youtube is launched revolutionising media sharing -
Egyptian revolution
Making essential use of Facebook and Twitter as organizing tools, protesters in Egypt force the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of rule
