Technology History

By Sydjean
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  • Yahoo Browser Invented

    Yahoo Browser Invented
    Source Today, Yahoo! is one of the most well known and frequently visited pages on the Internet. On July 29, 2009 Yahoo! and Microsoft announced a 10-year search deal where the Yahoo! search would be replaced by Bing.

  • ENIAC Invented

    ENIAC Invented
    SourceThe ENIAC was the first electronic comptuer invented by the U.S. Army during WWII. Then ENIAC cost about $500,000 and was the size of a very large room.

  • SAGE Computer created

    SAGE Computer created
    "Semi-Automatic Ground Environment" linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network. The operator or controllor directed actions by touching a light gun to the screen.

  • UNIX operating system developed

    UNIX operating system developed
    SourceUNIX combined many of the timesharing and file management features offered by Multics, from which it took its name. The UNIX operating system quickly secured a wide following, particularly among engineers and scientists.

  • Arpanet

    Arpanet
    Source ARPANET was a Wide Area Network linking many Universities and research centers together. It was also the first to use packet switching, and was the beginning of what we consider the Internet today.

  • ENIGMA decipher machine used

    ENIGMA decipher machine used
    SourceThe ENIGMA cipher machine was used by the German military in WWII. Messages typed into the machine were encrypted and then sent by Morse code.

  • Apple 1 Macbook Created

    Apple 1 Macbook Created
    SourceApple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60+ chips.However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display.

  • WIFI

    WIFI
    Source A home wireless network uses a wireless access point or router to broadcast a signal using WAP or WEP encryption to send and receive signals from wireless devices on the network. There are several different kind of wifi

  • Bluetooth

    Bluetooth
    Source A computing and telecommunications industry specification that describes how different components such as mobile phones and computers work together and communicate. Bluetooth is a RF technology that operates at 2.4 GHz.

  • Google Browswer Invented

    Google Browswer Invented
    Source Google is a search engine that started development in 1996 as a research project at Stanford University. Larry and Sergey decide the name of their search engine needs to change and decide upon the name google.

  • Fujitsu

    Fujitsu
    SourceFujitsu computers were created by a Japanese company and started manufacturing in 1996. They are now as popular as Macbooks and Chromebooks.

  • Iphone Invented

    Iphone Invented
    Source The iPhone is smartphone that works like as an iPod, camera phone, and PDA. It has WiFi access that can be used to access and browse the Internet using its widescreen display.

  • Bing Browser Invented

    Bing Browser Invented
    Souce Bing is a search engine that searches the web for what you ask. It's headquarters is in Bellevue, WA.

  • Windows 7 Created

    Windows 7 Created
    Source Windows 7 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft. Its was created by Bill Gates and it's headquarters in Redmond, WA.

  • Chromebook Invented

    Chromebook Invented
    Source Chromebooks are usually cheaper than other laptops and ultrabooks. Instead of installing and running programs from the hard drive almost everything is run from the cloud.