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Blaise Paschal
Blaise Paschal invents the first mechanical adgin machine -
Charled Babbage
The 'father of modern computing' designs his first mechanical computer. -
Morse Code
Samuel Morse invented morse code as a way of communication -
Ada Lovelace
Ada lovelace proposes her first computer program to Babbage -
Enigma
Enigma coding was used by the germans in world war II to keep secret messages -
Colossus
Colossus was the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer. Colossus and its successors were used by British codebreakers to help read encrypted German messages during World War II. -
ENIAC
ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems -
CRT
F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube CRT storing device the forerunner to RAM the most memory ever put on a CRT was 3071 bytes -
UNIVAC
The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. Originally priced at US$159,000, the UNIVAC I rose in price until they were between $1,250,000 and $1,500,000. A total of 46 systems were eventually built and delivered. -
The first mouse
Douglas Engelbart invents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end) -
Word Processors
IBM creates the first word processor -
First floppy disc
IBM creates the first floppy disc -
Apple 1
Apple create the original Apple computer with 4kB but could be upgraded to 49kB -
First CGI film
The ten minute short film Hummingbird was the first film to have computer animated creations -
First video game
Atari bring out Pong the first commercially availible video game -
Original Internet
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Microsoft
The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 -
CRAY 1
The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history. -
Sinclair ZX80
The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. -
Sinclair ZX81
The ZX81 was a home computer produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Scotland by Timex Corporation. More than 1.5 million were sold -
First PC
IBM 5150 is released and is the first computer to go into the homes -
Commodore 64
The personal computer came out with 64kB memory in the RAM -
windows
Microsoft Windows introduced eliminating the need for a user to have to type each command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate through drop-down menus, tabs and icons. -
Mac OS 1.0
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First CD-Rom
Sony and Phillips make the first CD-Rom -
Mac OS 2.0
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Amstrad PCW
The Amstrad PCW series was a range of personal computers produced by British company Amstrad from 1985 to 1998 -
Windows 1.0
Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating environment, developed by Microsoft Corporation and released on November 20, 1985. -
Mac OS 3.0
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Mac OS 4.0
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Mac OS 5.0
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Windows 2.0
Windows 2.0 is a 16-bit Microsoft Windows GUI-based operating environment that was released on December 9, 1987 -
Mac OS 6.0
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Windows 2.1x
Windows 2.1x is a family of Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-based operating environments. -
SNES
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (also known as the Super NES, SNES[b] or Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia (Oceania), and South America between 1990 and 1993. -
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet. -
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.0, a graphical environment, is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and was released on May 22, 1990. It became the first widely successful version of Windows and a rival to Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga on the GUI front. -
Mac OS 7.0
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Internet
The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991. Who would've imagined that from just one page now there are over 400 million web sites. -
Windows 3.1x
Windows 3.1x is a series of 16-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers. The series began with Windows 3.1, which was first sold during March 1992 as a successor to Windows 3.0. -
Lynx
The first web browser was set up -
First DVD
The DVD evolves from the CD created by Sony and Phillips -
Playstation
Playstation was created in Japan, spanning the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth generations of video gaming. -
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. -
Opera
New features include tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures, and an integrated download manager. Its security features include built-in phishing and malware protection. -
Windows 95
In the marketplace, Windows 95 was a major success, and within a year or two of its release had become the most successful operating system ever produced. -
Internet Explorer
The original internet explorer came out as standard with the windows 95 computer and it rose to destroy the use of Opera internet -
TFT-LCD
Thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) is a variant of liquid crystal display (LCD) which uses thin-film transistor (TFT) technology to improve image quality -
The first film on DVD
The film Twister comes out and is the first film on DVD -
Mac OS 8.0
It was mainly released to keep the Mac OS moving forward during a difficult time for Apple. Initially planned as Mac OS 7.7, it was renumbered "8" to exploit a legal loophole and accomplish Jobs's goal of terminating third-party manufacturers' licenses to System 7 and shutting down the Macintosh clone market. -
Windows 98
.Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on May 15, 1998 and to retail on June 25, 1998. -
Memory stick
The original memory stick was launched in October 1998, was available in sizes up to 128MB, -
Mozilla internet
The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named SeaMonkey) was a cross-platform integrated Internet suite. -
Mac OS 9
It was generally a steady evolution from Mac OS 8. Early development releases of Mac OS 9 were numbered 8.7. Mac OS 9 added improved support for AirPort wireless networking. It introduced an early implementation of multi-user support -
Windows Me
Windows ME was the successor to Windows 98 and was targeted specifically at home PC users. -
Xbox
Bill Gates creates Xbox with its first console -
Mac OS X
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Windows XP
Windows XP introduced several new features to the Windows line, including:
Handwriting recognition, speech recognition and digital ink
Updated accessories and games -
iPod
The handheld music player which has sold over 300,000,000 worldwide as of december 2011 -
Windows Vista
Microsoft began work on Windows Vista, in May 2001, five months before the release of Windows XP. It was originally expected to ship sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP and Blackcomb, which was planned to be the company's next major operating system release. -
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo bring out the first game console with a revolutionary controller. It is currently the most sold game console in the world with over 94 million sold -
Windows 7
Unlike Windows Vista, which introduced a large number of new features, Windows 7 was intended to be a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line, with the goal of being compatible with applications and hardware with which Windows Vista was already compatible. -
iPad
The original 16GB was a huge memory by comparison to old memory as not 20 years ago 1GB was big -
Windows 8
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PS4
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Proposed release of Xbox 720
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Holographic TV
Breakthroughs in rewritable and erasable systems have made it possible to mass-market the first truly holographic TV displays.This form of technology has been in development for nearly three decades. One of the main problems encountered was that the displays required a lengthy delay between each "rewrite" - making it impractical for televisual displays. However, recent advances in power transfer have overcome this problem, with displays now capable of running at many frames per second. -
Mind reading for security
The system uses "non-invasive" sensors and imagers. These observe a person's emotional state, facial expression, body language, body temperature, heart rate, breathing pattern and other cues. Analysed together, these factors can determine whether they are planning to commit a crime. -
Invisibility suits
Once considered purely theoretical, advances in metamaterials have enabled the creation of truly invisible camouflage suits When activated, these render the wearer completely transparent. -
Hyper intelligent computers
Due to Moore's Law, $1000 of computing power will be equivalent to a billion Earth's worth of human brains.