Programming History Timeline

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  • Wilhelm Schikard's calculator

    Wilhelm Schikard's calculator
    In 1623 Wilhelm Schikard invented his own calculating machine that called by his contemporaries a speeding clock.
  • Hubert Cecil Booth

    Hubert Cecil Booth
    In 1901 the british engineer Hubert Booth invented the very first vacuum cleaner.
  • John Ambrose Fleming

    John Ambrose Fleming
    In 1904 John Ambrose Fleming after known for making the diode he invented the first vacuum tube.
  • Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla
    In 1943 Tesla something called a frequency hopping which was later know as the spread spectrum.
  • IBM

    IBM
    IBM develops the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors in New York.
  • Bell telephone

    Bell telephone
    Bell telephone introduces the push button telephone.
  • AT&T

    AT&T
    AT&T starts the practice of monitoring telephone calls in the hopes of identifying pheakers.
  • HP

    HP
    Hewlett Picard released its first general computer, the "HP-2115".
  • Magnavox Odyssey

    Magnavox Odyssey
    The first video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey is demonstrated and later released by Magnavox and sold for 100.00 USD
  • Atlair 8800

    Atlair 8800
    The Atlair 8800 hits start to go on sale.
  • Software Piracy

    Software Piracy
    David Bunnel publishes an article by Bill Gates complaining about software piracy in his computer notes Altair.
  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    Arpanet expirences first major network crash causing it to go down for four hours
  • IMDB

    IMDB
    The Internet Movie Database launched in 1990.
  • Webcam

    Webcam
    The first webcam was released in 1993
  • Afreey

    Afreey
    Afreey was established