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Punched Card Computing
Punched cards were the primary medium for data entry & data storage. -
IBM stacking 5 to 10 million punchcards a day
By 1937 IBM had 32 presses at work in Endicott, N.Y., printing, cutting and stacking five to 10 million punched cards every day. -
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TV sets become popular
Source (not in research doc.) Television sets became much more popular during the 1960s. Famous programmes from the 1960s included Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Andy Pandy, Magic Roundabout and Thunderbirds. -
Audio Cassettes invented
Source (not in research doc.) In 1962, the popular audio cassettes were invented, allowing for music on the go. -
Touchtone Telephones invented
Source (not in research doc.) The touchtone phone was made during 1963, and we still use phones like these today, just modded up with the times. -
First Intercity train
Source (not in research doc.) In 1966, the first Intercity train was used, which could travel much quicker than old steam and diesel trains. -
BBC 2 Broadcasting colour TV
Source (not in research doc.) During 1967, BBC 2 started rolling out colour TV broadcasts to the nation. -
First Pelican crossings
Source (not in research doc.) In 1969, the first pelican crossings were introduced which had a button for pedestrians to press when the wanted to cross the road and an illuminated 'green man' which flashed when the traffic had to be stopped and it was safe to cross over. Their name is derived from PELICON, an acronym of 'pedestrian light controlled'. -
First general microprocessor released
Source This was the birth of the first general microprocessor - the Intel 4004. This is when computing really started to kick off. -
Release of the Apple I, home computer
This is personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.). -
Apple II is released
The Apple II home computer is released and is now one of the world's best selling products in its era. -
IBM Personal Computer released
Source The IBM Personal Computer is the original version of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. Other PCs were made by 'cloning' IBM's PCs and changing them slightly. That's the same today. -
Elk Cloner - First computer virus
Source Elk Cloner is one of the first known microcomputer viruses that spread "in the wild," i.e., outside the computer system or lab in which it was written. -
Apple Macintosh released
The Macintosh was the first in the line of all Mac computers, including the iMac today. -
Microsoft Windows 1.0 released
This marks the date of the release of Microsoft Windows 1.0, this was basically just a shell that ran on top of MS-DOS. -
Java starts development
In 1991, a small group of Sun engineers called the "Green Team" believed that the next wave in computing was the union of digital consumer devices and computers. -
Public release of the World Wide Web
On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. -
Release of the Linux kernel
Source In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki, Finland started working on some simple ideas for an operating system. He started with a task switcher in Intel 80386 assembly language and a terminal driver. On 25 August 1991, Torvalds posted the first revision of the kernel to a Usenet group. -
Y2K Bug
BBC News article from 1/1/2000 People feared that the world's technology would come to a halt when the year rolled over to 1/1/2000 because computers were inly programmed to accept dates in the 20th century.... then nothing happened!
