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When "Computer" was first used
The first time the word "Computer" was recorded as being used was in 1613 which described those who would do calculations -
Charles Babbage's machine
In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing a machine to compute several sets of numbers. -
First programmable computer made
The first programmable computer was created in 1936-38 by German Konrad Zuse. The first digital computer was created in 1937 and was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). -
Colossus is born!
The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer and was developed by Tommy Flowers, it was made to decode German message. -
Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device
In 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. created a video game based on WWII radar and it was a missile simulator. -
First computer company
`The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer. The company was later renamed to EMCC or Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and released a series of mainframe computers under the UNIVAC name. -
First store program electronic computer
The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby". -
First program stored computer
First delivered to the United States Government in 1950, the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory. -
First computer with RAM
MIT introduces the Whirlwind machine on March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM and real-time graphics. -
First oscilloscope game
1958
Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. His game, a table tennis game was made to fit a oscilloscope. -
First virus ever
The Creeper virus, an experimental self-replicating program, is written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies. The virus infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system. -
First portable computer
The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM. In the picture to the right, is an ad of the IBM 5100 taken from a November 1975 issue of Scientific America.
The first truly portable computer or laptop is considered to be the Osborne I, which was released on April 1981 and developed by Adam Osborne. The Osborne I weighed 24.5 pounds, had a 5-inch -
First apple computer
Steve Wozniak designed the first Apple known as the Apple I computer in 1976. -
First Multimedia computer
In 1992, Tandy Radio Shack becomes one of the first companies to release a computer based on the MPC standard with its introduction of the M2500 XL/2 and M4020 SX computers. -
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First commercial computer
In 1942, Konrad Zuse begin working on the Z4, which later became the first commercial computer after being sold to Eduard Stiefel a mathematician of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich on July 12, 1950. -
