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John Atanasoff with some graduate students designed and built the first electronic digital computer. It was significant because it could do binary arithmetic, separate computing function and memory, and regenerate memory.
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John Von Neumann proposes that you can store a program in a computer the same way you store data. Which was the basis for modern day computers.
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International Business Machines came out with their first computer machine. Which allowed businesses to do work easier and faster.
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The first bank computer used MICR' or magnetic ink character recognition' to read checks. This helped with businesses dealing with banks to help with money.
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Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse. He called it the mouse because the cord came out the back like a tail. This helped to navigate easier when using a computer.
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The first internet was called ARPANET. The initial purpose was to communicate with and share computer resources among mainly scientific users at the connected institutions. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.
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A number of personal computers hit the market, including Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair, IBM 5100, Radio Shack's TRS-80. These weren't the best computers but they helped people to be able to use their own computer when working.
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This was the first computerized spreadsheet program and this helped accountants a lot. It helped personal computers used for hobbies into a business tool.
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It was registered on March 15, years before the World Wide Web would mark the formal beginning of Internet history.
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Tim Berners-Lee created www. which is how we know the internet today but he also created develops Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) which helped rise the World Wide Web. This helped many businesses to communicate and do most things on the internet.
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop the search engine Google at Stanford University.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires. This allowed people to not have to worry about wires catching on fire or something.
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Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browser. Facebook, a social networking site, launches. This allowed businesses to use different web browsers when doing work
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Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browser. Facebook, a social networking site, launches. Which was big because now people working and consumers could be able to have more control and options for things.
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Apple unveils the iPad, changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segment. Which was a good way for people to look at things on something smaller and more mobile to bring around.
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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. They're usually each tailored to attack a particular algorithm," said study lead author Shantanu Debnath, a quantum physicist and optical engineer at the University of Maryland, College Park.
