History of Computers

By CToddy
  • First Computer Made

    First Computer Made

    1822: English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, The world’s first computer was actually built.
  • The first computer to store information on its main memory

    The first computer to store information on its main memory

    1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously. This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory.
  • First Cmputer Lang.

    First Cmputer Lang.

    1953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL.
  • The first Dynamic Access Memory chip

    The first Dynamic Access Memory chip

    1970: The newly formed Intel unveils the Intel 1103, the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip.
  • Apple Lisa

    Apple Lisa

    1983: Apple’s Lisa is the first personal computer with a GUI. It also features a drop-down menu and icons.
  • The World wide web

    The World wide web

    1990: Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), giving rise to the World Wide Web.
  • First Graphic and Music For Computers

    First Graphic and Music For Computers

    1993: The Pentium microprocessor advances the use of graphics and music on PCs.
  • Apple unviels the Mac OS X operating system

    Apple unviels the Mac OS X operating system

    2001: Apple unveils the Mac OS X operating system, which provides protected memory architecture and pre-emptive multi-tasking, among other benefits.