computers through the ages

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  • First Computer

    The first computer was made by Charles Babbage, In 1812 Charles Babbage conceived what he called The Difference Engine. This solved polynomial equations by the method of differences. Ten years later in 1822 Charles Babbage built a small working model of his Difference Engine for demonstrations.
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  • First Transistor Computer

    The computer was built by Jean Howard Felker of Bell Labs for the United States Air Force. it was used as a calculator
  • First Mouse

  • Internet invented

  • First Email

    Emails were invented to enable people to talk to other people using computers. the firts message was QWERTYIOP
  • Apple Founded

    Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers.
  • First Sat Nav

    world's first automotive navigation computer on the Toyota Celica XX
  • First online game

    The text-based game, Snipes, was played between multiple people on multiple IBM personal computer systems in 1983.
  • Easyjet founded

    EasyJet is a British low-cost airline carrier based at London Luton Airport. It is the largest airline of the United Kingdom.
  • broadband available

    BROADBAND: Cable and Digital Subscriber Lines start to make an appearance in homes, and telecommuting becomes a real option.
  • Trip advisor made

    TripAdvisor LLC is an American travel website company providing reviews of travel-related content. It also includes interactive travel forums. TripAdvisor was an early adopter of user-generated content.
  • Facebook Born

    Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.
  • Xbox 360 released

    Microsoft releases Xbox 360, its second-generation console
  • Trivago founded

    Trivago was launched in 2005 by the three founders in Düsseldorf, Germany: Peter Vinnemeier, Malte Siewert, and Rolf Schrömgens. The United Kingdom platform was launched in 2006 and in 2007 the website launched platforms in Spain and France.
  • Qzone

    Qzone is a chinese social networking site made by the chinese government for the chinese people to replace facebook as facebook has content critising the chinese government
  • Ps3 Released

    Syncopated assists Sony with the release of its PlayStation 3 (P.S.3), its third-generation home game console
  • Sina weibo

    Sina weibo is basically the chinese version of twitter
  • Snapchat released

    Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, then Stanford University students.
  • MInd Message

    you can send messages just by thinking about what you want to send
  • AI widespread

    Despite the recent economic disruption, technology is continuing to accelerate exponentially. By 2030, the pace of change is so great that it seems as if an entire century of progress has already occurred in the first three decades of the 21st century
  • Energy islands

    A single 250-megawatt OTEC plant can meet the energy demands of 250,000 households and provide 600 million litres of drinkable water each day.* Surplus water is used to support local agriculture and industry. These islands also feature housing developments, fish farms, greenhouses and eco-tourism complexes.
  • Smaller, safer, hi-tech automobiles

    The vast majority of cars in the developed world are now computer-controlled,* while traffic flow and other road management issues are handled by advanced networks of AI. The resulting fall in congestion has boosted some economies by tens of billions of dollars.
  • Self-assembling buildings made from nanotech

    Nanotechnology has swept the world, transforming society in myriad ways.* At the same time, new methods of automation are displacing the need for human labour on ever increasing scales. A growing number of industries have seen their workforces shrink dramatically, with robots and AI handling the bulk of operations. Around the world, unemployment has soared.