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First Mechanical Computer
The first mechanical computer was created by Charles Babbage in 1822. It doesn’t really resemble what most would consider a computer today. -
Invention of the Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. On December 16, 1947, they built the point-contact transistor, made from strips of gold foil on a plastic triangle, pushed down into contact with a slab of germanium. -
First Floppy Disk
The earliest floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter; they became commercially available in 1971. -
First Computer Game
The first true computer game or digital game to be ‘Spacewar!’The game was programmed by Steve Russell and released in February 1962. -
First Computer Mouse
The computer mouse was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English during the 1960’s -
Invention of Email
In 1978, a 14-year-old named V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai developed a computer program, which replicated the features of the interoffice, inter-organizational paper mail system. He named his program “EMAIL”. -
First Hard Drive (Seagate)
Seagate developed the first 5.25-inch hard disk drive (HDD) in 1980, the 5-megabyte ST-506. A hard drive is a disk drive used to read from and write to a hard disk -
First Laptop
The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 23.6 pounds (10.7 kg). It had no battery, a 5 in (13 cm) CRT screen, and dual 5.25 in (13.3 cm) single-density floppy drives -
Invention of Windows
It was announced in November 1983 (after the Apple Lisa, but before the Macintosh) under the name "Windows", but Windows 1.0 was not released until November 1985. Windows 1.0 was to compete with Apple's operating system, but achieved little popularity. -
Birth of Internet
September 2, 1969: First time two computers communicated with each other. Oct 29, 1969: Message sent from computer to computer in different locations. Jan 1, 1983: ARPANET adopted the standard TCP/IP protocol. March 1989: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
The Browser Wars
A browser war is competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. The first browser war was Microsoft's Internet Explorer against Netscape's Navigator during the late 1990s. -
The Founding of Google
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. -
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. -
First iPhone
The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007 and was invented by Steve Jobs. -
First Programming Language
The first programming language for a computer was Plankalkül, developed by Konrad Zuse for the Z3 between 1943 and 1945. However, it was not implemented until 1998.
