Timeline: history of computers

Feb 24, 1822

First computer

In 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing machine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results.

Aug 25, 1919

launch of british airways website

Dec 1, 1943

Scientists at Bletchley park begin to build colossus

Colossus was the world's first electronic digital computer that was programmable. The Colossus computers were developed for British codebreakers during World War II to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Without them, the Allies would have been deprived of the very valuable military intelligence that was obtained from reading the vast quantity of encrypted high-level telegraphic messages between the German High Command (OKW) and their army commands throughout occupied Europe. Colossu

Aug 1, 1972

The Magnavox Odyssey, the first games console is launched.

he Magnavox Odyssey was the world's first commercial home video game console. It was first demonstrated in April 1972[1] and released in August of that year, predating the Atari Pong home consoles by three years. It is a digital video game console, though is often mistakenly believed to be analog, due to misunderstanding of its hardware design.

Apr 1, 1976

when was apple founded?

Founders: Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Ronald Wayne

Jan 1, 1980

The spectrum ZX80 is launched,

The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. (later to be better known as Sinclair Research). It is notable for being the first computer (unless one counts the MK14) available in the United Kingdom for less than a hundred pounds. It was available in kit form for £79.95, where purchasers had to assemble and solder it together, and as a ready-built version at £99.95. The ZX80 was very popular straight away, and for some time there was a waiting list o

Mar 24, 1980

First satnav

Electronic Auto Compass with new mechanism on the Toyota Crown.

Nov 20, 1985

The first version of microsoft windows comes out

Microsoft Windows (or simply Windows) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry. The key people involved are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and it is an American company.

Mar 24, 1993

launch of national rail inquiries

Mar 17, 1997

netflix is launched

Reed Hastings and fellow software executive Marc Randolph co-found Netflix to offer online movie rentals.

Mar 24, 1997

sixdegrees.com launched

first social networking website

Sep 4, 1998

google launched

Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Jan 15, 2001

when was wikepedia launched

Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.

Nov 15, 2001

The first xbox released

people involved: microsoft

Mar 24, 2003

linkedin launched

Aug 1, 2003

MySpace launched

Feb 4, 2004

facebook

Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes

Feb 14, 2005

Youtube is launched

Mar 21, 2006

Twitter is launched

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.[10] Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.[11]