History of Computers By maiseyg Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Mar 17, 2014 History of Computers Jan 1, 1868 First typewriter was invented by Christopher Sholes http://www.ask.com/question/who-invented-the-typewriter Jan 1, 1878 QWERTY Keyboard approved http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/qwerty.htm Jan 1, 1940 Number Calculator created http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr Jan 1, 1943 Colossus used in WW2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml Jan 1, 1947 ENIAC Computer http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC Jan 1, 1951 UNIVAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I Jan 1, 1952 UNIVAC used to predict election results Jan 1, 1956 Transisitor http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/ Jan 1, 1958 Air Force COmputers http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/timeline/semicon/1950/docs/58ic_kilby.htm Jan 1, 1962 Space War http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm Jan 1, 1962 LINC computers offered the first real labratory http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr Jan 1, 1964 Mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart Jan 1, 1968 Microprossesor Chip http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microprocessor.htm Jan 1, 1968 Apollo Guidance Computer http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr Jan 1, 1969 Arapanet Jan 1, 1971 Creeper Virsus Message http://www.popsci.com/scitech/gallery/2009-04/top-10-computer-viruses Jan 1, 1971 First emal recieved by Ray Tomlinson https://www.google.com/#q=who+recieved+the+first+email+message Jan 1, 1974 Alto computer designed with built in Mouse http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr Jan 1, 1976 Apple computer released http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Industrial_Design_Group Jan 1, 1979 Wordstar http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm Jan 1, 1981 Osborne 1 http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html Jan 1, 1981 IBM 5150 http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-Pc.htmhttp://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-Pc.htm Jan 1, 1982 Machine of the Year on Time Magazine http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19830103,00.html Jan 1, 1982 Sideways Smile Emoji http://news.yahoo.com/emoticon-inventor-hates-emoji-because-hes-fuddy-duddy-171902161.htmlhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/ Jan 1, 1983 Apple Lisa http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm Jan 1, 1984 Macintosh computer made by Apple http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr Jan 1, 1985 Microsoft Windows was created http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm Jan 1, 1989 World Wide Web introduced http://blogs.computerworld.com/internet/23649/happy-birthday-world-wide-web-itbwgkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee Jan 1, 1998 Google (BackRub) invented https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ Jan 1, 2002 Blackberry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry Mar 3, 2010 First Ipad released https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27Apple-Launches-iPad.html
