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History Of Computers

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  • When Hewlett Packard was invented.

    Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939.

  • When The IBM 650 Model Was Released.

    The IBF model 650 magnetic drum processing machine began development in the late-1940s

  • When The Integrated Circuit Was Invented

    The first integrated circuit was developed in the 1950s by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor.

  • When COBOL was invented

    COBOL was the first operating system that used letters instead of numbers it was made in 1960.

  • When The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented,

  • When BASIC programming language was invented

    1965
    BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) developed at Dartmouth College, USA, by Thomas E. Kurtz and John Kemeny. Not implemented on microcomputers until 1975. It is often used in education to teach programming, and also at home by beginners.

  • First Magnetic Disk Was Made For Storage

    In 1971, IBM introduced the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today.

  • When The First Mini-Computer Was Invented

  • When the first Apple computer was built

    When the first Apple computer was built

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  • The development of MS-DOS

    An acronym for Disk Operating System, in a general sense, DOS refers to just about any operating system. More commonly, it describes the operating system Microsoft developed in 1981 for IBM's line of personal computers.

  • When COMPAQ was founded

    Compaq Computer Corporation was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto

  • When Lotus 1-2-3 was produced

  • When Microsoft was invented

    When Microsoft was invented

    On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multitasking environment for IBM computers.
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  • When Microsoft Office was introduced

    Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.

  • When The World Went Wireless

    In 1991 Wi-Fi was invented by NCR Corporation in Nieuwegein

  • When Java was released to the web.

    On January 23rd 1996 Java was official released to the web. The Java Web Start software allows you to download and run Java applications from the web.
  • Fear Of The Y2K Bug

    Fear Of The Y2K Bug

    1999- millions of people had fears of technology taking over in 2000. 2000- It was a false alarm and nothing happened

  • When the Intel Pentium 4 was unveiled

  • When Windows XP was released.

    Microsoft released windows XP on the 31december 2001.

  • When e-commerce boomed

    in 11.03.2011 Bloomberg news recently reported that “China’s largest online retailers expect sales to as much as triple next year”. With an accompanying increase in demand for warehouse space, rental rates are rising; some key e-commerce players saw their sales reduced simply due to lack of warehouse space. There is also a dramatic increase in investment in the e-commerce industry in China. For these reasons and more, it is obvious that e commerce is booming and will continue to grow in China ov