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During 1946, J. Presper Eckert created the first working computer. It weighed almost 50 tons and programmers didn't interact directly with computing devices. They instead delivered their programs to technicians and then picked up the results hours later after the programs were processed with others. -
During 1954, John Backus with a diverse team of specialists was able to create Fortran. The first programming software when it was published in 1957 it rapidly became used for mathematical and scientific computing in larger degrees. -
During 1965 to 1980, the field of computer science experienced a "Software Crisis". Because of the fact that software developers were being asked to make software that simply wasn't possible back then. Eventually, The NATO Software Engineering Conferences in 1968 and 1969 helped address the problems and started the process of finding solutions. Although, some people believe the "Software Crisis" never really ended. -
The NATO Conference that addressed the Software Crisis. -
Published on February of 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. Pascal was the first programming language with learning in mind. It was fundamentally simple and perfect for beginners. -
During 1971, the first video game named "Computer Space" was released by Nutting Associates. It's gameplay revolved around using a simple spaceship to shoot invading UFO's. -
During 1971, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the programming language C for their newly designed operating system named UNIX. The UNIX OS was later distributed as the first Linux Operating system. -
In March of 1973, Xerox released the first desktop computer named the Xerox ALTO. the ALTO used a GUI (Graphical User Interface) which meant that it was usable for people that didn't know a programming language. This later developed into the Windows OS. -
In October of 1980, Software Engineering became a real profession, due to the rise in accessibility of computers with the invention of the "Microcomputers". -
In January of 1983, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf created a system known as ARPANET which was basically a "Network of Networks" meaning that it had a small database to hold queries and data that could be accessed by other people. At first, it wasn't widespread, but later, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. -
In July of 1994, Jeff Bezos began Amazon, which at the time was an online book retailer, who shipped to all 50 states and 45 countries. By 1998, Amazon had become a multi-million dollar company. -
In August of 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British Scientist from CERN, invented the World Wide Web. The web was conceived to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists in institutes around the world.