History Of Computers

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  • The earliest known interactive game

    The earliest known interactive game
    The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube.[3] The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948.
  • When was the floppy disk created

    When was the floppy disk created
    The earliest floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter;[1] they became commercially available in 1971.[2] These disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies such as Memorex, Shugart Associates, and Burroughs Corporation.
  • The first mouse

    The first mouse
    Independently, Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) invented his first mouse prototype in the 1960s with the assistance of his lead engineer Bill English.
  • When was an email created

    When was an email created
    This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another.
  • When was the apple 1 released

    When was the apple 1 released
    The original Apple Computer 1, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, was released by the Apple Computer Company.
  • Wben was the first laptop created

    Wben was the first laptop created
    The first mass-produced microprocessor-based portable computer was the Osborne 1 in 1981, which used the CP/M operating system
  • The browser wars

    The browser wars
    A browser war is competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. The first browser war was Microsoft's Internet Explorer against Netscape's Navigator during the late 1990s.
  • When was google created

    When was google created
    Google is an American multinational technology comaony that allows us to have access to internet related services and products.
  • When was facebook founded

    When was facebook founded
    Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes were the founders of facebook. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles.
  • When was the 1st iphone released

    When was the 1st iphone released
    The iPhone (retroactively labeled the original iPhone and often referred to as iPhone 1, iPhone 1G, or iPhone 2G) is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the first generation of iPhone and was announced on January 9, 2007, after years of rumors and speculation. It was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007. It featured quad-band GSM cellular connectivity with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer.