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Addressing the technical shortcomings, Almon Brown Strowger invented a telephone dial in 1891.
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Was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania. Weighed almost 50 ton, took up about 1,800 square feet, and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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The transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself, but it was a vital computer component.
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International Business Machines came out with their first computer machine
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The first bank computers were invented. They used MICR or magnetic ink character recognition to read checks.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit better known as the computer chip.
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Space war games invented the first computer video games.
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Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse. He called it the mouse because the cord came out the back like a tail.
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The first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.
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This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor.
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During Labor Day weekend in 1973, a meeting of about twelve military officers at the Pentagon discussed the creation of a Defense Navigation Satellite System (DNSS). It was at this meeting that the real synthesis that became GPS was created.
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Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his rival.
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IBM and Apple were just a couple of the brands that put out the first personal computers.
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Bill Gates worked with Paul Allen to develop BASIC for the Altair 8800.
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The "Elk Cloner" for the Apple II Systems was created by Richard Skrenta. It infected the Apple DOS 3.3 and spread to other computers by floppy disk transfer. The "Elk Virus" was responsible for being the first computer virus to cause a massive outbreak ever in history.
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Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
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Microsoft made a program that was compatible with IBM computers. This let more people come into contact with the now well-known program.
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Tim Berners Less came up with the World Wide Web. He started a computer revolution.
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The first laptop computer. The Power Book 100 came out. There were other portable computers before this, but they were very clunky and expensive.
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It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone.
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the first internet convention was held.
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Nokia introduced a phone that had internet capabilities. This started a revolution of devices that were small, portable computers.
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The first portable MP3 player was launched in 1997 by Saehan Information Systems, which sold its “MPMan” player in Asia in spring 1998.
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The social media page was founded in 2004 in Cambridge, MA by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year.
