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Konrad Zuse's Z3 Machine
German inventor and engineer Konrad Zuse completes his Z3 machine, the world's earliest digital computer, according to Gerard O'Regan's book "A Brief History of Computing" (Springer, 2021). The machine was destroyed during a bombing raid on Berlin during World War II. -
Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create the Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S., called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory, and is capable of performing one operation every 15 seconds, according to the book "Birthing the Computer(opens in new tab)" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) -
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, design and build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator.
Two professors at the University of Pennsylvania, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, design and build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). The machine is the first "automatic, general-purpose, electronic, decimal, digital computer," according to Edwin D. Reilly's book "Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology" (Greenwood Press, 2003). -
Mauchly and Presper build the UNIVAC.
Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications. -
A team at the University of Cambridge develops the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator.
A team at the University of Cambridge develops the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), "the first practical stored-program computer," according to O'Regan. -
scientists with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research build Australia's first digital computer.(
In November 1949, scientists with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), now called CSIRO, build Australia's first digital computer called the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer (CSIRAC). CSIRAC is the first digital computer in the world to play music, according to O'Regan. -
Grace Hopper develops the first computer language,
Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL, which stands for Common, Business-Oriented Language according to the National Museum of American History(opens in new tab). -
John Backus and his team of programmers create FORTRAN programming language
John Backus and his team of programmers at IBM publish a paper describing their newly created FORTRAN programming language, an acronym for Formula Translation, according to MIT(opens in new tab). -
Douglas Engelbart reveals a prototype of the modern computer.
Douglas Engelbart reveals a prototype of the modern computer at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco. A viewing of his computer, including a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI), according to the Doug Engelbart Institute. This marks the development of the computer from a specialized machine for academics to a technology that is more accessible to the general public. -
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak unveil Apple I
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-found Apple Computer on April Fool's Day. They unveil Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board and ROM (Read Only Memory), according to MIT. -
Radio Shack's TRS-80
Radio Shack began its initial production run of 3,000 TRS-80 Model 1 computers — disparagingly known as the "Trash 80". -
IBM'S First Personal Computer
"Acorn," IBM's first personal computer, is released onto the market at a price point of $1,565, according to IBM. -
Apple releases the Mactintosh.
The Apple Macintosh is announced to the world during a Superbowl advertisement. The Macintosh is launched with a retail price of $2,500, according to the NMAH. -
Microsoft released Windows.
As a response to the Apple Lisa's GUI, Microsoft releases Windows in November 1985. -
Tim Berners-Lee, submits the proposal for World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), submits his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web. -
Wifi is create
Wi-Fi, the abbreviated term for "wireless fidelity" is developed, initially covering a distance of up to 300 feet. -
Mac OS X is released by Apple.
Mac OS X, later renamed OS X then simply macOS, is released by Apple as the successor to its standard Mac Operating System. OS X goes through 16 different versions -
AMD's Athlon 64
AMD's Athlon 64, the first 64-bit processor for personal computers, is released to customers. -
MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro from Apple hits the shelves. The Pro is the company's first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer. -
Windows 7
Microsoft launches Windows 7 on July 22. -
Microsoft releases Windows 10.
Microsoft releases Windows 10 in 2015. The best OS. -
First reprogrammable quantum computer was created.
The first reprogrammable quantum computer was created. "Until now, there hasn't been any quantum-computing platform that had the capability to program new algorithms into their system.