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Period: Oct 15, 1440 to Oct 15, 1440
Gutenberg
Gutenberg invents the printing press which is a very important thing. It I like a copier, because of that we can mass produce papers and books -
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ENIAC
ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve "a large class of numerical problems." Introduced in 1946 -
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Invention of the Transistor
William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain and John Bardeen invented the Transistor in the 1947. A transistor is a semiconductor with a solid and non-moving part to pass a charge. It can amplify and switch electrical power and electronic signals -
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Integrated Circuits
The first integrated circuits (IC's) begin being sold for $120.00 and are chosen to be used on the Gemini spacecraft. -
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Floppy Disks
IBM creates he first floppy disks. A floppy disk, also called a diskette or just disk, is a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier -
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First Internet
UCLA puts out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969. On August 29, 1969 the first network switch and the first piece of network equipment (called "IMP", which is short for Interface Message Processor) is sent to UCLA. -
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First Microprocessor
In 1970 and '71, responding to a request for 12 custom chips for a new high-end calculator, and with incredible overkill, a young startup company named Intel built the world's first single-chip general-purpose microprocessor. -
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Pong
In 1972, Atari introduced the first commercially successful computer game – Pong. Based on ping pong (table tennis), Pong was a simple game which hooked up directly to a television set. -
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Ethernet
Although the concept of long distance, point-to-point packet-switched networking had already been developed as part of the ARPANET project, the idea of a local area network didn't become a reality until Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC in 1973. -
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The Pentium Microprocessor
The Pentium microprocessor advances the use of graphics and music on PCs in 1993 which means it can handle high end programs -
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Google
In 1996, Sergey Brin and Larry Page develop the Google search engine at Stanford University. Probably one on the biggest internet inventions -
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First 64-Bit Processor
In 2003, the first 64-bit processor, AMD’s Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market. A 64-bit processor is a microprocessor with a word size of 64 bits, a requirement for memory and data intensive applications such as computer-aided design (CAD) applications, database management systems, technical and scientific applications, and high-performance servers.