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Hewlett-Packard Foundation
Computer History Museum David Packard and Bill Hewlett made "Hewlett-Packard (HP) in their Palo Alto, Cali. garage. The first HP product was the 200A Audio Oscillator -
The FIrst Bombe
Computer History Museum The first Bombe was created. It decrypted Nazi military communication during WWII. It was greatly influenced by the work of computer pioneer Alan Turing. -
ENIAC Invented - First Digital Computer
Wikipedia First digital computer invented by the U.S. Army for launching ballistic missiles. It was as big as a small gymnasium and cost $500,000. The concept and design of this computer was made by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. -
SWAC
Computer Histroy Museum The National Bureau of Standards completed its Standards Western Automatic Computer, or SWAC in Los Angeles, California. RAther than testing components, it used already-developed technology to compute. -
AT&T Dataphone
Computer History Museum AT&T created their Dataphone, the first commercial modem. It was used for converting digital computer data to analog signals for transmission across its long distance network. -
DAC-1
Computer Histroy Museum The DAC-1 computer aided design program was released. In 1960, IBM joined the project, making the first commercially-available Computer Aided Design program, DAC-1. -
First E-Mail
Computer History Museum Ray Tomlinson, from the research firm Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project. It was sent over ARPANET. Some people believe that Ray was the one to decide on using the "@" symbol for e-mail. -
WELL is created
WELL Network The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link is an online Bulletin Board System (BBS) designed to build a "virtual community" of computer users for low cost. It was created by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant. -
The Mosaic Web Browser
Computer Histroy Museum Mosaic was the first commercial software that allowed graphical access to content on the internet. Designed by Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen, Mosaic was originally designed for a Unix system running X-windows.
