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Mark 1
The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, called Mark I by Harvard University’s staff, was a general purpose electromechanical computer that was used in the war effort during the last part of World War II. -
The first Computer
The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighing almost 50 tons. -
The E-Mail
Invented by Ray Tomlinson, email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. the first E-Mail was sent in 1971 -
Digital photography
The first consumer digital cameras were marketed in the late 1990s. Professionals gravitated to digital slowly, and were won over when their professional work required using digital files to fulfill the demands of employers and clients, for faster turn-around than conventional methods would allow. -
The internet
The origins of the Internet date back to research by the federal government of the United States in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication with computer networks. It was then available in 1995.