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The first Computer
The first mechanical computer, created by Charles Babbage in 1822.In 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began developing the Difference Engine, which is considered the first automatic computing machine.The Difference Engine was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages. -
The first digital computer
Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC began development by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937. Its development continued until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). The ABC was an electrical computer that used more than 300 vacuum tubes for digital computation, including binary math and Boolean logic, and had no CPU (was not programmable). -
The first Application of the computer
Computer Systems Applications MATHEMATICS spawned the computer in the 1940s and gave it its name. Its first application was the computation of theoretical ballistic tables for traditional bombs, but calculations for the atomic bomb and then for guided missiles soon became the driving force for computer development. -
The first internet
In 1962, a scientist from M.I.T. and ARPA named J.C.R. Licklider proposed a solution to this problem: a “galactic network” of computers that could talk to one another. Such a network would enable government leaders to communicate even if the Soviets destroyed the telephone system.In 1965, another M.I.T. scientist developed a way of sending information from one computer to another that he called “packet switching.” -
The First Computer Mouse
The inventor of the first computer mouse was Douglas Engelbart. He invented the first computer mouse in 1963 and it was patented in 1970. While creating the first computer mouse, he was working as a researcher at Stanford Research Institute. First of all, this mouse was created just for locating the X and Y positions in the display systems. The shape of the first computer mouse was also completely different from the shape of today’s modern mouse. -
The first HP computer
Hewlett-Packard’s first computer, the HP 2116A, was developed in 1966 specifically to manage the company’s test and measurement devices. In 1972 the company released the HP 3000 general-purpose minicomputer—a product line that remains in use today—for use in business. In 1976 an engineering intern at the company, Stephen G. Wozniak, built a prototype for the first personal computer (PC) and offered it to the company. -
The first portable computer
Laptops we use today have evolved a great deal. The efforts date back to 1970s and 1980s where many companies tried to build compact portable computers with the capabilities of a desktop computer. Alan Kay of the Xerox Corporation was the first person to propose the concept of portable personal computer in the year 1971. His concept was called as Dynabook.Osborne 1 featured a five inch CRT monitor.It ran the CP/M operating system which stands for Control Program for Microcomputers. -
The begining of microsoft
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Microsoft is born Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft – sometimes Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software – to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. -
The first microsoft computer
Microsoft's first product ever was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800 "microcomputer," released in 1975 — one of the earliest versions of what we now know as the personal computer, or the PC. Allen and Gates got the idea after reading about the machine in Popular Mechanics magazine. -
The first Apple computer
On April 1, 1976, they debuted the Apple 1, a desktop computer that came as a single motherboard, pre-assembled, unlike other personal computers of that era.
The Apple II was introduced about a year later. The upgraded machine included an integrated keyboard and case, along with expansion slots for attaching floppy disk drives and other components. The Apple III was released in 1980, one year before IBM released the IBM Personal Computer -
The first apparition of word
Microsoft Word, word-processor software launched in 1983 by the Microsoft Corporation. Software developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi joined the Microsoft team in 1981, and in 1983 they released Multi-Tool Word for computers that ran a version of the UNIX operating system (OS). -
The history of Google
The very popular search engine called Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The site was named after a googol -- the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros -- found in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Edward Kasner and James Newman.