I.C.T. Timeline

Abucus

1624

First four-function calculator-clock was built by Wilhelm Schickard

Hewlett-Packard

1930

David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded the Hewlett-Packard. Together their first ever product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator.

Project Whirlwind

1943

The navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT because they wanted to build a flight simulator.

IBM SSEC

1948

IBM’s Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator or SSEC was able to calculate data near their headquarters in Manhattan.

First Commercial Computer

1950

Built by Engineering Research Associates, this computer was able to store data on magnetic drums and was able to hold around 1 million bits.

First Interactive Computer Game

1962

MIT students created and designed the game. It was first played at MIT and it allowed you to play against other people using the early version of "Joysticks"

First Email Sent

1971

Ray Tomlinson sent the first email to himself. It was sent from one computer to another computer sitting directly beside the first one.

First Computer Virus

1988

Robert Morris created and sent the first viris. It was called, the "Worm" and it affected 6,000-60,000 people.

The WorldWideWeb (WWW)

1990

Tim Berners-Lee developed a Hypertext Mark-up Language or HTML. HTML allowed the internet to turn into the WorldWideWeb using things like Uniform Resource Locator or URL and Hyper Text Transfer Protocol or HTTP.

Facebook

2004

Facebook launched in February of 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. As of 2011 Facebook is worth around 41 billion dollars and has over 800 million users.