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The word 'computer' was first used in the book 'The yong mans gleanings' written by English writer Richard Braithwait
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David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard (HP) in a californian garage. HP's first product was an Audio Oscillator which was very popular amongst engineers and 8 were bought by the video production company Walt Disney for their movie "Fantasia' in 1940.
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Grace Hopper recorded the first actual computer 'bug' a moth stuck in the relays at 15:45 on the ship Harvard Mark II
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American Popular Mechanics magazine predicts 'Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons'
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The USSR's Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant opens June 27, 1954 and becomes the first Nuclear power plant to generate electricity.
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The first mouse was invented by Douglas Englebart in the 60's and was patented on November 17th 1970. His mouse was first used with the Xerox Alto computer system in 1973.
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The first email is sent by Ray Tomlinson of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman. He was credited for the design of the '@'. When asked about what the email contained he said 'it was something like 'QWERTYUIOP'
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Atari releases pong on November 29th, the first commercial video game ever made. It started out as a coin operated machine popular in arcades but soon Atari released a home version of Pong which sold 150,000 copies one holidays season.
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Microsoft Corporations Founded on 4th April 1975. It rose in the technological world with its personal computers and operating systems most importantly the 'MS-DOS' in the mid 1980's and then followed my Microsoft Windows which would dominate the market to this day,
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Adam Osborne finished the first portable computer, the Osborne I, which weighed 11 kilos and cost $1,795. The machine had a 5 inch display, 64kb of memory and 5 floppy disk drives.
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Commodore releases the commodore 64. The commodore 64 sold for $595, came with 64kb of ram and had very impressive graphics for its time.
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id Software release Doom late 1993. An immersive first-person shooter game, Doom became popular on many different platforms. Doom players were also among the first to customize the game’s levels and appearance.
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The Iomega Zip Disk is released to the public. The first version allowed 100mb to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 and a half inch floppy disk. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from 100mb to 2gb.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google when they were Ph.D students at Stanford University. Google would then become the most used website in the world and one of the biggest companies in the world.
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The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code. A feat most people thought absolutely impossible at the time.
