History of the computer

By Vanessaa18

  • First radio station

    First radio station
    source , station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. They chose that date because it was election day, and the power of radio was proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they read about it in the newspaper.

  • Project Whirlwind begins.

    Project Whirlwind begins.
    source During World War II, the U.S. Navy helped the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with building a flight simulator to train bomber crews.

  • First Computer (ENIAC)

    First Computer (ENIAC)
    SourceENIAC was founded by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Built in 1943-45 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania for the War effort
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    Computer History

  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC
    source he world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer. UNIVAC, that stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.

  • PDP-1

    PDP-1
    source the world's first small, interactive computer.

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    Source Originally funded by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), now DARPA, within the United States Department of Defense, ARPANET was to be used for projects at universities and research laboratories in the US. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by British scientist Donald Davies and Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory.

  • First apple computer

    First apple computer
    source The original Apple Computer 1, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, was released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak

  • Commodore 64

    Commodore 64
    Source A low price and more flexible hardware. It was the most selling computer against Atari 8-bit 400, the Atari 800, and the apple 2.

  • first apple laptap

    first apple laptap
    source The Apple Macintosh Portable features a 16 MHz 68HC000 processor, 1 MB of RAM, a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive and the option of a 40 MB hard drive in a boxy portable case with a 9.8" monochrome active-matrix display.

  • WIFI

    source invented by NCR Corporation/AT&T in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.

  • Bluetooth

    source Ericsson in 1994, had the idea of Bluetooth wireless technology that was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables. Bluetooth technology exchanges data over short distances using radio transmissions.

  • GOOGLE

    source Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software

  • First ipod invented

    [source](www.macworld.com/article/.../the_birth_of_the_ipod.html)Apple lifted the curtain on the very first iPod, which packed 5GB of music storage into a sleek white box no bigger than a deck of cards.

  • First iphone made

    source On June 11, 2007 announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine on the device.

  • First iphone to come in different colors

    source Apple's premium pricing tendencies, the iPhone 5C was initially sold at prices similar to other high-end flagship smartphones released early in 2013 such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One. Like previous iPhones it did not compete in the feature phone segment nor the unsubsidized/prepaid category.