History of Programming

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  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer

  • John Logie Baird

    Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird

  • Colossus

    Alan Turing develops the code-breaking machine Colossus

  • F.C. Williams

    F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)

  • COBOL

    The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented

  • First computer game

    The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT

  • UNIX

    Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

  • RAM

    Intel introduces the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

  • PC

    The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers

  • SQL

    IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL

  • 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

  • C++

    C++ created by Bjarne Stroustrup

  • Apple McIntosh

    Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface

  • Internet

    Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet

  • Java

    Java: Java is introduced