History of Computers

Aeroplanes

Dec 13, 1903

On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. The Wrights used this stopwatch to time the Kitty Hawk flights.

First TV

Sep 7, 1927

Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.

First Transistor Computer

Nov 16, 1953

The University of Manchester made the first prototype transister computer.

First Mouse

Jun 2, 1963

Doug Engelbart invented the first ever mouse in his research lab at Stanford Research Institute. He wanted to make the interactive Computer more efficiant

Satnav

Jun 12, 1970

This revolution in navigation is the consequence of the development of a military satellite navigation system called the Global Positioning System/NAVSTAR, developed in the 1970s under the direction of Bradford W. Parkinson, now Stanford professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and a U.S. Air Force colonel

Sky

Nov 2, 1990

Sky UK Limited is a British telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom. Sky provides television and broadband internet services and fixed line telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom

Netflix

Jun 9, 1997

Netflix, Inc. is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of North America, Australia, New Zealand, South America and parts of Europe

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software

Xbox

Nov 15, 2001

The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market.

Skype

Aug 29, 2003

Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis, from Denmark, and Niklas Zennström, from Sweden. The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The first public beta version was released on 29 August 2003.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005: Chad Hurly, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.

Twitter

Mar 2, 2006

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.

Tumblr

Feb 1, 2007

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

First iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

On June 6, 2007 Steve Jobs again took the stage at Moscone West, this time for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, again showed off the original iPhone, and announced the launch date: June 29, 2007

Instagram

Oct 6, 2010

Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr

Snapchat

Sep 9, 2011

Snapchat's 23-year-old CEO was smart to turn down a $3 billion offer. Snapchat's 23-year-old co-founder Evan Spiegel recently turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook to buy his popular photo- and video-sharing app.

Travel Lodge

Jun 9, 2015

Travelodge (formerly TraveLodge) refers to several hotel chains around the world. Current operations include: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. However, many of these are operated by independent companies who have no connection with the brand in other countries.

Texting by Thinking

Jun 16, 2020

You will be able to sned a text by just thinking about what you want to send

Robot Surgery

Jun 16, 2050

Tiny robots will conduct medical surgery from inside our bodies

Battle Fought in Space

Jun 16, 2060

The first battle will be fought in space by computer controlled space ships