Major Technology Events By colej9 Jan 1, 1800 The first electric light was made by Humphry Davy Jun 23, 1868 Invention of typewriter http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/a/newspaper_2.htm Aug 27, 1878 A patent was approved for the keyboard Qwerty http://people.smu.edu/eheise/consider_qwerty.htm Dec 1, 1943 The first electric programmable computer,Colossus This was used in WWII to aid the military is reading encrypted German messages. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Colossus_computer.html Jan 1, 1947 Eniac was patented.. it was 1800 sq ft http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/Eniac.htm Mar 1, 1951 UNIVAC was created to assist the census. It took three years to build. https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/univac_i.html Nov 4, 1952 The UNIVAC was used for the preidential election in1952 http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/30/1952.idg/ Dec 11, 1956 Tansistor won the Nobel Prize for physics http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/brattain-bio.html Jan 1, 1962 the first computer game, spacewar, was created by Steve Russel http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm Jan 1, 1962 Texas Insturment invented by Jack Kilby http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/tihistory_subpage2.shtml Jan 1, 1964 The mouse was created by Doug Englebart out of a block of wood, a circuit board, and 2 metal wheels http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/04/douglas-engelbart-dies-at-88/ Jan 1, 1969 The microprocessor was invented by Intel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor Nov 21, 1969 ARPANET created for military bases to communicate with each other http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091598.htm Jan 1, 1971 first computer virus, Creeper, was createdand it said, "catch me if you can" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/01/malware-cyberplague-internet-meltdown Jan 1, 1971 Ray Tomilson receives the first email http://email.about.com/cs/emailhistory/a/first_email.htm Jan 1, 1981 Osborne 1 is released, which costed $1795 http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllaptop.htm Jan 1, 1981 Scamp Ibm's first computer was released 3 Apr 1973 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer Jan 1, 1982 Times Magazine names the 'Machine of the Year' the computer http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19830103,00.html Jan 1, 1982 Wordstar was created by Seymour Rubenstein and Ron Barnaby http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm Sep 19, 1982 The sideways smile emoticon was created by Scott Fahlman http://www.sherv.net/emoticon-history.html Jan 19, 1983 The Lisa, the first home computer with a graphical user interface, was created Jan 1, 1989 The World Wide Web is created by Tim Berners Lee, from the UK. http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/p/TimBernersLee.htm Sep 4, 1998 Backrub (today known as Google) was incorporated by two stanford students http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google Mar 4, 2000 playstation 2 released Sep 14, 2001 Gamecube released by Nintendo Jan 1, 2002 The first smartphone is released that could receive email and had internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones Nov 9, 2006 The Wii is released by Nintendo Mar 3, 2010 Frst Ipad released http://www.slashgear.com/apple-ipad-was-released-3-years-ago-today-03276372/ Nov 22, 2013 Xbox One released Mar 26, 2014 The apple computer, which was created by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne http://apple-history.com/h1
