Events in computer history

By PAPCS16
  • First digital computer

    First digital computer
    The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the first digital computer invented. It was not programmable but was used to solve linear equations. The computer was invented by John Vincent Atanasoff and a Grad student by the name of Cliff Berry
  • First computer company

    The first computer company was called Electric control Company but later changed to The Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. It was founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly who wore the inventors of the ENIAC. This was the company where they created a bunch of mainframe computers.
  • First video game

    The first video game invented ever was the Cathode Ray Tube Aumusment Device. It was a missle simulator using a rador. And was invented by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann.
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  • First commercial computer

    The first commercial computer was called the UNIVAC I, which stood for UNIVersal Automatic Computer I. It was invented by the same people who invented the ENIAC, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. The computer was able to help pick presidential winners.
  • Mini computer INVENTED

    It was called the PDP-1 and was the first effective, elegant mini-computer. The computer was built to support certain input/output functions; the card-to-tape and the inverse, tape-to-printer and tape-to-film functions. It was built by the digital equipment corporation.
  • First internet INVENTED

    The first internet was called ARPAnet and stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency. It was mostly used for military use. The designs were designed by Donald Davies and Lawrence Roberts.
  • Invention of the Ethernet

    The ethernet is a system for connecting computers within a building using hardware running from machine to machine. The inventor of this was Robert Metcalfe.
  • First apple computer invented

    The apple 1 was the first apple computer released. It was invented by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. The computer was the first to have a sibngle circuit board in a computer.
  • Portable computer invented

    The first laptop was named Osborne I. It weighed 24.5 pounds, included a modem and cost 179 dollars. It was invented by Adam Osborne.
  • Microsoft was released

    Microsoft windows was built to compete against Apple. It is a graphical interface operating system. They have had many different versions are up to Windows 7.
  • Internet Explorer was created

    The devolping of internet explorer began in 1994 with the inventor Thomas Reardon. He used source code from Spyglass in order to get it to work. The first version was called Internet Explorer I.
  • The nintendo 64 is relased

    Was one of the first video game consoles invented. Had many different games such as super mario or sonic. It is not made anymore.
  • The SIMS realsed on PC

    The game is published by EA. It would go on to be the highest selling Pc game in history. It is a life-simulating game. Devolped by Maxis and lead designer was Will Wright.
  • Wikipedia.com is created

    It was launched by by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. All artickles on wikipedia can mostly be edited by anyone but moast of the infomation is correct. Wikipedia receives 2.7 billion monthly pageviews, which is a lot.
  • Iphone 4 REALASED

    The fourth iPhone comes out, with a new body style over all the other ones. Runs on the IOS system like all the others. Made by apple like all the others.