Timeline: History of Computers (Some dates are wrong due to we had to pick a date) | Timetoast

Period: 1100 BCE to 1100 BCE

Abacus

Earliest calculating device
Period: Oct 10, 1822 to Oct 11, 1822

FIRST COMPUTER INVENTED

invented by Charles Babbage
Period: Oct 11, 1823 to Oct 12, 1823

Silicon Discovery!

Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius discovers silicon (Si), which is one of the basic part of processors.
Period: Oct 10, 1936 to Oct 11, 1938

First programmable computer

The Z1 was created by Konrad Zuse
Period: Dec 10, 1943 to Dec 11, 1943

First electrical programmable computer

Developed by Tommy Flowers,and first appeared in December 1943. It was used to read encrypted German codes.
Period: Oct 11, 1946 to Oct 12, 1946

Williams Tube

Professor Fredrick C. Williams created the first random access computer memory
Period: May 6, 1949 to May 7, 1949

First stored program computer

EDSAC performed its first calculation on May 1st. Around the same time Mark1 was built at the Victoria University of Manchester.
Period: Oct 10, 1950 to Oct 11, 1950

First stored program computer2

UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101 was the first computer that stored and run a program by memory.
Period: Mar 8, 1955 to Mar 8, 1955

First computer with RAM

Whirlwind machine was the first computer with RAM and real-time graphics.
Period: Oct 11, 1956 to Oct 12, 1956

HardDisk

invented by IBM
Period: Oct 11, 1964 to Oct 12, 1964

First desktop computer

Programma 101
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Olivettiunderwood_programma101.jpg
Period: Sep 11, 1969 to Dec 31, 1969

First Computer Connected

BBN installed the first Interface Message Processors at UCLA and by the end of 1969, 4 computers were connected
Period: Nov 17, 1970 to Nov 17, 1970

Mouse

Douglas Engelbart invented the first computer mouse.
http://www.designhistory.org/Digital_Revolution_pages/images_digital/Fetter_mouse.jpg
Period: Oct 11, 1971 to Oct 12, 1981

FLOPPY DISK
Period: Apr 11, 1977 to Apr 12, 1977

Apple II

https://thecanadiantechie.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/1977-apple-ii-monitor.jpg
Period: Oct 11, 1984 to Oct 12, 1984

CD ROM
Period: Nov 20, 1985 to Nov 20, 1985

Windows 1.0
Period: Dec 9, 1987 to Dec 9, 1987

Windows 2.0
Period: Oct 11, 1999 to Oct 12, 1999

USB
Period: Oct 11, 2000 to Oct 12, 2000

First major OS release

Apple OS X 10.0