Devin History of the Computer

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  • Computers beginning

    Computers beginning
    The computer got its beginning in the 19th century. Charles Babbage a mathematics professor designed the analytical engine. Which is the basic framework for todays computer

  • Turing machine

    Turing machine
    Alan Turing presents the notion of a universal machine later called the turing machine, capable of computing anything that was computable.

  • First computer

    First computer
    The first electronic digital computer was built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).

  • Colossus

    Colossus
    In 1943 an electronic computer named the colossus was built for the military. It was built for britain's military in Bletchley Park

  • First General purpose computer

    First General purpose computer
    The first general purpose computer was the giant ENIAC. Which was created by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania. Used a word of 10 decimal digits instead of binary.

  • Commercial Computer

    Commercial Computer
    In 1951 the first computer for commercial use was introduced to the public. The (UNIVAC 1) which stands for Universal Automatic Computer.

  • Business Computers

    Business Computers
    In 1953 the International Business Machine (IBM) 650 and 700 series made their mark. During this generation of computers over 100 computer programming languages were developed.

  • MS-Dos

    MS-Dos
    Microsoft Disk operating system was created in 1980.

  • IBM

    IBM
    IBM introduces the personal Computer (PC) in 1981 for home and office use. Computer became smaller.

  • Mac

    Mac
    In 1984 Apple created the Macintosh computer. It had an icon driven interface.

  • Windows

    Windows
    In the 1990's the windows operating system was created for computers. It is still used in computer today.

  • Google

    Google
    Google was created in 1998 by Larry page and Sergey Brin. Google is a massive search engine.

  • Wi-Fi

    Wi-Fi
    The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet with out wires

  • Programs

    Programs
    Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking. Microsoft rolls out Windows XP, which has a significantly redesigned GUI

  • HeadSets

    HeadSets
    Wireless headsets were created in 2002. Since phones were wireless people thought why not the head phones that went with them.

  • Processor

    Processor
    The first 64-bit processor, AMD's Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market

  • Web Sites

    Web Sites
    Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which is the dominant web browser. Facebook is launched

  • Little media

    Little media
    Youtube is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system

  • First mobile computer

    First mobile computer
    Apple introduces the Macbook Pro, its first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. Nintendo's Wii game console hits the market

  • iPhone

    iPhone
    In 2007 the iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone

  • Window 7

    Window 7
    Microsoft launches windows 7, which offers the ability to pin applications to the taskbar and advances in touch and handwriting recognition.

  • First tablet

    First tablet
    Apple unveil the iPad , changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segment.

  • Chromebook

    Chromebook
    Google releases the Chromebook, a laptop that runs the google Chrome OS.

  • Facebook popularity

    Facebook popularity
    In 2012 Facebook gained its 1 billionth uses on October 4th.

  • Apple watch

    Apple watch
    Apple releases the apple watch and Microsoft releases windows 10.