History of Computers By jbinstock Jan 1, 1868 Typewriter was created by Christopher Latham Sholes Jan 1, 1878 QWERTY keyboard patented Jun 1, 1943 first computer to aid military in feading incripted messages called colossus Jan 1, 1947 ENIAC Patented Could electronicaly circulate artillery firing tables. Invented by John Mauchly and John Presper Eukert took uo 1800 square Jan 1, 1949 Monolithic intergrated circuit Jan 1, 1951 UNIVAC Jan 1, 1952 Election Jan 1, 1956 semiconductors Jan 1, 1958 Texas instruments intergrated circuit Jan 1, 1962 Spacewar Jan 1, 1964 Computer mouse invented by Doug Engelbart and William English Jan 1, 1969 ARPANET Jan 1, 1971 First phon call recieved by Ray Tomlinson Jan 1, 1971 first computer virus creeper Apr 1, 1976 Apple coputer Jan 1, 1979 Wordstar Jan 1, 1981 IBM computer release Apr 3, 1981 Osborne first laptop Jan 1, 1982 Time magizene computer machine of the year Sep 19, 1982 sideways smile emotion Jan 1, 1983 Apple Lisa Jan 1, 1989 World Wide Web introduced Jan 1, 1992 First smartphone by IBM Dec 3, 1994 Play station released Sep 4, 1998 Backrub then Google Oct 23, 2001 I pod released Nov 15, 2001 X BOX released Jan 1, 2002 smartphne email and internet Jun 29, 2007 I Phone released Apr 3, 2010 I pad released