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1910-1920
The company now known as IBM is founded -
1910-1920
Arthur Scherbius files for a patent of the Enigma machine -
1920-1930
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the Integrated Circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer is born -
1920-1930
The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company is renamed to IBM -
1930-1940
J.V Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, attempted to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts, or shafts -
1930-1940
Geophysical Service Incorporated is founded. The company will later become Texas Instruments -
1940-1949
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 -
1960-1970
Two university of Pennsylvania professors-John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert-built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20 foot room by 40 and has a volume of 18,000 vacuum tubes -
1940-1950
Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications -
1950-1960
The United States Government receives the UNIVAC 1101 or ERA 1101. This computer is considered to be the first computer that was capable of storing and running a program from memory. -
1950-1960
The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito. -
1950-1960
Konrad Zuse completes and sells the Z4, becoming the first commercial computer. -
1960-1970
The first integrated circuits (IC's) begin being sold for $120.00 and are chosen to be used on Gemini spacecraft. -
1970-1980
IBM introduces the System/370, which included the use of Virtual Memory and utilized memory chips instead of magnetic core technology -
1980-1990
The now famous Apple "1984" commercial is aired during Super Bowl XVIII, 1984 and introduces the Apple Macintosh computer -
1990-2000
The first CSS specification, CSS 1, is published by the W3C -
1990-2000
IEEE introduced 802.11 the wireless (WiFi) network standard -
19090-2000
Microsoft introduces Windows 3.1 -
200-2010
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 codenamed Cheetah and becomes available March 24, 2001.
Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released -
200-2010
Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 codenamed Cheetah and becomes available March 24, 2001. Microsoft Windows XP home and professional editions are released October -
2000-2010
PayPal is acquired by eBay -
2000-2010
Google announces plans to purchase YouTube for 1.65 Billion -
2010-2015
The first Chromebooks with Chrome OS begin shipping -
2010-2015
Facebook officially crosses the one billion active users mark -
2010-2015
Yahoo! announces it will purchase Tumblr for $1.1Billion -
2010-2015
Yahoo! announces it will purchase Tumblr for $1.1Billion -
2010-2015
Satya Nadella takes over as Microsoft CEO -
2010-2015
Microsoft sells the remainder of its Surface devices running Windows RT and has no plans on releasing any future products using Windows RT -
2010-2015
Mozilla releases version 1.0.0 alpha of the Rust programming language -
2010-2015
Ross Ulbricht the man behind the website Silk Road is convicted -
2010-2015
The BQ Aquarius E4.5 Ubuntu Edition becomes the first phone running the Ubuntu Operating system to be released -
2010-2015
The first Chromebooks with Chrome OS begin shipping