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Jan 1, 1300
Abacus(PreComputers/machines)
-Also called Counting frame, is a calculating tool first used in China
-Was then used in Europe and Russia
-is still used by merchants, traders and clerks in some parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Africa. -
Pascal's calculator
-Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, and scientist at age 19 invented the Pascaline which is the first mechanical calculating machine.
-It is used for addition and subtraction of up to 8 digits number. -
Early First Computers / devices
-Charles Babbage developed the Difference Engine, which is considered as the first automatic computing machine. -
Silicon(Si)
Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius discovers silicon(Si), which today is the basic component of processors. -
Electrical logic circuits
Nikola Tesla patents electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches". -
First transistor
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the first transistor at the Bell Laboratories. -
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Internet History
-The Internet is invented between this period
-By the end of 1992
*The internet has one million hosts
*The ARPANET has ceased to exist
*Computers are nine orders of magnitude faster
*Network bandwidth is twenty million time greater -
3.5" Floppy
The 3.5-inch floppy disk had significant advantages over its predecessors. It had a rigid metal cover that made it harder to damage the magnetic film inside. -
Intel 80286
The Intel 80286 is introduced -
The release of Apple's System 1
It's the world’s first graphical user interface (GUI) operating system. Every other computer until that point had run on a command line, so the GUI-based System 1 became the predecessor of today’s mainstream computing world. -
The release of Microsoft Windows
Windows 1 was Microsoft’s first release that included a 16-bit graphical user interface. -
1990 MOD(PDF)
The Magneto-Optical disc emerged onto the information technology field in 1990. This optical disc format used a combination of optical and magnetic technologies to store and retrieve digital data. A special magneto-optical drive is necessary to retrieve the data stored on these 3.5 to 5.25-inch discs. -
One of the first milestones in cloud computing
The arrival of Salesforce.com in 1999, which pioneered the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple website. The services firm paved the way for both specialist and mainstream software firms to deliver applications over the internet. -
HD-DVD
High-Density Digital Versatile Disc (HD-DVD), a digital optical media format, uses the same disc size as Blu-Ray. It is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, and Sanyo. -
Windows XP
Windows XP introduced a whole new visual interface to the Microsoft product. The start button became a familiar green, the task bar was shaded blue, and a series of other visual effects laid the groundwork for the trademark Microsoft operating system interface that PC users are familiar with today. -
Another big milestone of cloud computing
As Web 2.0 hit its stride, and Google and others started to offer browser-based enterprise applications, though services such as Google Apps. -
Core i5
Intel releases the first Core i5 Desktop processor with 4 cores, the i5-750(8M Cache, 2.67GHz,1333 MHz FSB) -
A10-5700
AMD releases the first desktop processors in their A10 line, the A10-5700 (4M L2 Cache, 3.4 GHz or 4.0 GHz in Turbo mode, 1866 MHz FSB) and the A10-5800K (4M L2 Cache, 3.8 GHz or 4.2 GHz in Turbo mode, 1866 MHz FSB) -
Cloud Data Storage
Improvements in internet bandwidth and the falling cost of storage capacity means it’s frequently more economical for business and individuals to outsource their data storage to the cloud, rather than buying, maintaining and replacing their own hardware. Cloud offers near-infinite scalability, and the anywhere/everywhere data access that users increasingly expect.
