Timeline: history of computer

Oct 15, 1944

Howard Aiken and Grace Hooper.

The Harvard Mark I computer. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm

Oct 15, 1948

Memories

Frederic Williams and Tom Kilburn. Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

Oct 15, 1958

The microchip

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. The integrated circuit. Otherwise known as the chip.

Oct 15, 1983

Mac

Apple Lisa computer. The first computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.

Oct 15, 1985

Microsoft

Microsoft Windows. Begins the friendly war with Apple.

Oct 15, 1986

Pixar

Pixar is founded. Pixar was originally called the Special Effects Computer Group at Lucasfilm (launched in 1979). The group created the computer animated segments of films such as “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Young Sherlock Holmes.” In 1986, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs paid 10 million dollars to Lucasfilm to purchase the Group and renamed it Pixar. Over the next decade, Pixar made highly-successful (and Oscar-winning) animated films. It was bought by Disney in 2006.

Oct 15, 1987

Oak

Oak Technology is founded

Oct 16, 1987

Kingstone

Kingstone is founded.

Oct 12, 1988

Steve Jobs Inventions

Steve Jobs unveils the NeXT computer October 12, 1988.

Oct 16, 1989

Fred Cohen Award

Fred Cohen is awarded the Information Technology Award.

Oct 16, 1989

OSPF

The networking routing protocol OSPF is introduced.

Oct 16, 1990

HTML

Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), giving rise to the World Wide Web.

Oct 16, 1997

Microsoft invests $150million in Apple

Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple, which was struggling at the time, ending Apple’s court case against Microsoft in which it alleges that Microsoft copied the “look and feel” of its operating system.

Oct 16, 1999

Wi-Fi

The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.

Oct 16, 2003

64-bit processor

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

Oct 16, 2006

Macbook Pro

Apple introduces the MacBook Pro, its first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. Nintendo’s Wiihits the market.

Oct 16, 2007

iPhone

The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone.

Oct 16, 2009

Windows 7 - Microsoft

Microsoft launches Windows 7, which offers the ability to pin applications to the taskbar and advances in touch and handwriting recognition, among other features.