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Was a tabulating object it was in rome in 500 D.C.
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Blaise pascal have built a mechanical machine to make additions, called roue pascaline.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his work.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface.
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A group of developers at Bell Labs produce UNIX, an operating system that addressed compatibility issues
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Alan Shugart leads a team of IBM engineers who invent the "floppy disk," allowing data to be shared among computers.
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The Altair 8080 is presented, as the first minicomputer kit, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, offer writing software for Altair, after the of this first effort, form their own software company, Microsoft.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers on April Fool's Day and roll out the Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board.
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Word processing becomes a reality as MicroPro International releases WordStar. "The defining change was to add margins and word wrap"
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The first IBM personal computer, code-named "Acorn," is introduced. It uses Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. It has an Intel chip, two floppy disks and an optional color monitor.
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Microsoft announces Windows, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. This was the company's response to Apple's GUI which features advanced audio and video capabilities.
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Microsoft invests $ 150 million in Apple, which is fighting, ending Apple's case against Microsoft in which it alleged that Microsoft copied the "look and feel" of its operating system.
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The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires.
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Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 challenges Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the dominant Web browser. Facebook, a social networking site, launches.
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YouTube, a video sharing service, is founded. Google acquires Android, a Linux-based mobile phone operating system.
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The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone.
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Apple unveils the iPad, changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segment.
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Google releases the Chromebook, a laptop that runs the Google Chrome OS.
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Apple releases the Apple Watch. Microsoft releases Windows 10.
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The first reprogrammable quantum computer was created.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a new "Molecular Informatics" program that uses molecules as computers. Computers of the Future May Be Minuscule Molecular Machines.
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All In One is created who is the PC that is fully integrated. The processor, the hard disk and the entire motherboard are incorporated in the monitor, normally its screen is tactile so we only have one element.
