History of Computers

The Jacquard is Invented

Mar 11, 1801

The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask, and matelasse.

Freely Programable Device

Mar 11, 1936

First Freely Programbale device

Colossus in use

Dec 17, 1942

Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC

Development of Transitor

Mar 11, 1947

Bell Telephone Laboratories develops the transistor in 1947. Even though a computer does not use transistors, the invention of this device influenced the development of computers.

INVENTION of the UNIVAC

Mar 11, 1951

UNIVAC, the Universal Automatic Computer is developed in 1951. It can store 12,000 digits in random access mercury-delay lines.

IBM Language Programming

May 11, 1954

First langauge programming invented at IBM

Introduction of the integreted circuit

May 11, 1959

Texas Instruments and Fairchild semiconductor both announce the integrated circuit in 1959.

Moore's Law

Mar 11, 1965

Moore's law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. The period often quoted as "18 months" is due to Intel executive David House, who predicted that period for a doubling in chip performance (being a combination of the effect of more transistors and their being faster)

First Word Processor

Mar 11, 1968

Doug Engelbart demonstrates in 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer applications.

INTEL FOUNDED

Mar 11, 1968

Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce found Intel in 1968

ARPANET is Established

May 11, 1969

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the world's first operational packet switching network, the first network to implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global Internet.

Global Connections to ARPANET

Jan 11, 1972

The first international connections to ARPANET are established. ARPANET later became the basis for what we now call the Internet.

1st High Level Programming Language

Mar 11, 1972

Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel microprocessor.

Selling of MiniComupter

May 11, 1974

Jonathan A. Titus designs the Mark-8, "Your Personal Minicomputer," according to the July, 1974 cover of Radio-Electronics.

Metcaalfe's Law

Mar 11, 1980

Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). First formulated in this form by George Gilder in 1993, and attributed to Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law was originally presented, circa 1980, not in terms of users, but rather of "compatible communicating devices"

IBM First Laptop

Mar 11, 1986

IBM releases First Laptop

First live streaming event:

Jun 11, 1993

SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE

Google Invented

Sep 4, 1998

Google is invented in Menlo Park, California.

1 GHz Pentium III Chip Released

Mar 8, 2000

Intel releases very limited supplies of the 1 GHz Pentium III chip.

First Apple iPhone

Jan 7, 2007

The first iPhone was introduced by Apple.

First Android Mobile Phone

Sep 23, 2008

The first version of Android was introduced by Verizon Wireless.[