History of Computers and Technology

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  • First Computer Game

    First Computer Game
    apsnews.org In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.

  • First Comupter Mouse

    First Comupter Mouse
    computer hope The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960's and was patented on November 17, 1970. While creating the mouse, Douglas was working at the Stanford Research Institute, a think tank sponsored by Stanford University.

  • The floppy disk

    The floppy disk
    Floppy Disk Info The earliest floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter;they became commercially available in 1971. These disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies such as Memorex, Shugart Associates, and Burroughs Corporation.

  • Apple 1 Released

    Apple 1 Released
    Apple 1 infoThe original Apple Computer 1, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, was released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.

  • Invention of email

    Invention of email
    Shiva Ayyadurai, a man who claims he invented email as in 1978 at the age of 14 while working at a medical and dentistry university in New Jersey. Today, Ayyadurai is a lecturer at MIT, and he once studied with Chomsky.

  • First Hard Drive (Seagate)

    First Hard Drive (Seagate)
    Seagate developed the first 5.25-inch hard disk drive (HDD) in 1980, the 5-megabyte ST-506.

  • First Laptop

    First Laptop
    The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called 'Osborne 1' and cost $1,795. It came bundled with $1,500 worth of programmes. It had a tiny computer screen built into it.

  • The founding of Google

    The founding of Google
    Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

  • The founding of Facebook

    The founding of Facebook
    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 Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University.

  • First iPhone

    First iPhone
    The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 by Apple Inc.; the most recent iPhone models are the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus, which were unveiled at a special event on September 9, 2014. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard.