History of Computers By CJ1314 Jun 23, 1868 The first Typewriter was built by Christopher Latham Sholes http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=623 Aug 27, 1878 A patent was approved for the QWERTY keyboard http://people.smu.edu/eheise/consider_qwerty.htm Jan 1, 1939 the first calculator Dec 1, 1943 Colussus, the first electric programable computer Colussus was used to sid the miltary in WWII to help read German encrypted messages. http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/computer-hist-web.htm Jan 1, 1944 Harvard Mark 1 was designed http://www.buzzle.com/articles/computer-history-full-timeline.html Jan 1, 1947 The Eniac was patented and was 1800 sq ft http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htm Mar 1, 1951 the UNIVAC was craeted tassist the census. It took 3 yrs to build http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/univac-computer-dedicated Nov 4, 1952 UNIVAC was used for the preidential election of 1952 http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/31/163951263/the-night-a-computer-predicted-the-next-president Jan 1, 1953 IBM enters the computer industry http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm Dec 11, 1956 Tansistor won the Nobel Prize for physics http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/ Jan 1, 1958 Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit that was used in 1962 by Texas Instruments for airforce computers and minute man missiles http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/tihistory_subpage2.shtml Feb 1, 1962 Spacewar, the first computer game, was created by Steve Russel http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm Jan 1, 1964 The mouse was created by Doug Englebart out of a block of wood, a circuit board, and 2 metal wheels http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/mouse.html Jan 1, 1968 DEC launched the first mini computer the PDP-8. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/computer-history-full-timeline.html Jan 1, 1969 the microprocessor was inventedby Intel employees http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microprocessor.htm Nov 21, 1969 The ARPANET was created to allow military bases to communicate with each other http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/ Jan 1, 1971 Ray Tomilson receives the first email through ARPANET http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm Jan 1, 1971 The first computer virus, Creeper, was created and based on a scooby doo character. It said 'catch me if you can' http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/17/creeper-the-first-computer-virus-is-40-years-young-today/ Apr 3, 1973 Scamp Ibm's first computer was released http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm Jan 1, 1976 The first computer operated by computer disks http://evolutionofcomputers.edublogs.org/q3-the-timeline/ Jul 1, 1976 The apple computer was created by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne https://www.google.com/#q=who+created+the+first+apple+computer+&safe=off Jan 1, 1981 Osborne 1 is released at 1795$ http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html Jan 1, 1982 Times Magazine 'Machine of the Year' is the computer http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/lisagui.html Apr 1, 1982 Wordstar was created by Seymour Rubenstein and Ron Barnaby http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm Sep 19, 1982 The sideways smile emoticon was created by Scott Fahlman http://www.sherv.net/emoticon-history.html Jan 19, 1983 The Lisa, the first home computer with a graphical home interface, was created http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/lisagui.html Jan 1, 1989 Tim Berners Lee, from the UK, created the World Wide Web http://www.webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ Sep 4, 1998 Google (Backrub) was incorporated by two stanford students http://www.google.com/about/company Jan 1, 2002 first smartphone released that could receive email and had internet http://mail2web.com/blog/2011/05/smartphone-revolution-growth-smartphones-exchange-activesync/ Mar 3, 2010 first ipad released http://ipad.about.com/od/Tablet_Computers_eReaders/tp/A-List-Of-iPad-Models-Generations.htm
