History of Computers

Michael Faraday creates electric motor

Jan 1, 1831

Typewriter invented

Jan 1, 1868

Inventor- Christopher Latham Sholes

Qwerty Keyboard approved

Jan 1, 1878

Intel creates microprosser

Jan 1, 1919

first T.V. invented by Philo Farnsworth

Jan 1, 1927

Colossus

Jan 1, 1943

First Electric programmable computer

ENIAC patent

Jan 1, 1947

took up 1,800 square feet

UNIVAC performed census

Jan 1, 1951

11 years to build

UNIVAC used in 1952 election

Jan 1, 1952

transistor effect wins nobel prize for physics

Jan 1, 1956

Jack Kilby integrated circuit

Sep 12, 1958

texas Instruments

Steve Russell creates Space War

Jan 1, 1961

Computer mouse invented by Doug Engelbart

Jan 1, 1964

ARPAnet created

Jan 1, 1969

Army bases now able to communicate with each other

Ray Tomlinson received first email

Jan 1, 1971

Creeper computer virus created

Jan 1, 1971

"I'm the creeper catch me if you can!"

Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak create Apple Computer

Jan 1, 1976

Lisa is avaible with graphical interface

Jan 1, 1978

Rubenstein and Barnaby create Wordstar

Jan 1, 1979

first word processing software

first IBM computer IBM 5100

Jan 1, 1981

Osborne 1 released

Jan 1, 1981

costed $1,795

Time Magazine names computer "Machine Of the Year"

Jan 1, 1982

:) is invented by Scott Fahlman

Sep 19, 1982

Sony invents camcorder

Jan 1, 1983

world wide web introduced by Tim-Berners-Lee

Jan 1, 1989

From England

Google

Jan 1, 1998

Larry Page & Sergey Brin

Apple introduces iPod

Jan 1, 2001

2002 first smartphone with Internet

Jan 1, 2002

First iPone

Jan 1, 2007

first iPad released

Mar 3, 2010