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ENIAC
ENIAC was the first electronic general computer. It was complete, digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. -
TIc Tac Toe in the 1950's
Alexander Douglas invented one of the earliest computer games, a version of Tic-Tac-Toe known in Britain as Naughts and Crosses, called OXO. -
Keyboards added to computers
Doug Ross of MIT, connected to an MIT computer could function as a keyboard input device due to its low cost and flexibility. An experiment conducted five months later on the MIT Whirlwind computer confirmed how useful and convenient a keyboard input device could be. -
ERMA Machine
Bank of America had ERMA machine that would process checks faster than any well trained banker would work days just by one hour of use. -
Victor 3900 desktop calculator
The calculator could perform multiple functions and had a small, integrated CRT display. However, the immature MOS manufacturing process made the parts unreliable, limiting sales -
Pong is born
Nolan Bushnell hires young engineer Al Alcorn to design a car-driving game, but when it becomes apparent that this is too ambitious for the time, he has Alcorn design a version of Ping Pong instead. -
Apple II
The Apple-II finds popularity beyond the hobby community which made up Apple’s user community until then. When connected to a color television set, the Apple II produced brilliant color graphics for the time. -
Enquire
A networked hypertext system used for project management but with far greater ambitions. It seeks to categorize hyperlinks in a way that can be read by computers as well as people. -
CD-ROM
Able to hold 550 megabytes of pre-recorded data, CD-ROMs grow out of music Compact Disks CDs. -
IBM personal copmputer
The first IBM system to include Intel´s 80386 chip, the company ships more than 1 million units by the end of the first year. -
Intel paragon
Based on the touchstone Delta computer Intel had built at caltech the Paragon is a parallel supercomputer that uses 2,048 (later increased to more than four thousand) Intel i860 processors. -
Java 1.0 introduced
Java 1.0 is introduced by Sun Microsystems. The Java platform’s Write Once, Run Anywhere functionality let a program run on any system, offering users independence from traditional large software vendors like Microsoft or Apple. -
First camera phone
Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone, The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display -
First Iphone
Apple launches the iPhone - a combination of web browser, music player and cell phone - which could download new functionality in the form of apps from the online Apple store. -
Instagram
Instagram, an image-sharing and social networking application, is purchased by Facebook for nearly $1 billion. It was initially launched in October 2010 by founders Kevin Sstrom and Mike Krieger and became an instant hit, with over 100 million active users by early 2013. -
Apple watch
Te Apple Watch was designed to be incorporated into the Apple environment with compatibility with iPhones and Mac Books. Almost a million units were ordered on the day of release.
