Technology History Project

  • ENIAC Invented

    ENIAC Invented
    SourceThe ENIAC was the first electronic computer invented by the U.S. Army during WWII. The ENIAC cost $500,000 to build and was 1800 square feet.
  • Network Cable

    Network Cable
    SourceIn the past 65 years, cable has emerged from a novelty for a handful of households to the nation’s preeminent provider of digital television, movies and state-of-the-art broadband Internet service available to millions of Americans
  • The SAGE

    The SAGE
    SourceThe SAGE aircraft-warning system was the largest vacuum computer system ever built. Each Center had two 55,000-tube computers built by IBM, MIT, AND Bell Labs. The 275-ton computers known as "Clyde" were based on Jay Forrester's Whirlwind.
  • ERMA

    ERMA
    SourceGeneral Electric Corporation delivered its Electronic Recording Machine Accounting (ERMA) computing system to the Bank of America in California. Based on a design by SRI, the ERMA system employed Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) as you get data from the checks and putting it with the ATM machines.
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    SourceARPANET linked many univerrsities and research centers together. The reason of creating ARPANET is to make it easier for people to access computers, to improve computer equipment, and a better communcation for the military.
  • Mini-computer

    Mini-computer
    SourceDEC introduced the first "mini-computer" it was named after the mini-skirt. DEC was founded in 1957 by Kenneth H. Olsen who came for the SAGE project at MIT and began sales of the PDP-1 in 1960
  • First Apple Product

    First Apple Product
    SourceFirst apple product was founded by Steve Jobs. They computer was built by hand.
  • Wireless Networking

    Wireless Networking
    SourceWireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and enterprise installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various equipment locations
  • Hypercard

    Hypercard
    Source Bill Atkinson of Apple Computers created a software program called HyperCard that was bundled free with all Macintosh computers.Ted Nelson thought about the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1965 based on the pre-computer ideas of Vannevar Bush.
  • Mosaic

    Mosaic
    SourceThe first Web browser called Mosaic was created by two students Marc Andreesen and programmer Eric Bina at NCSA. The beta version 0.5 of X Mosaic for UNIX was released Jan. 23 1993 and was instant success. The PC and Mac versions of Mosaic followed quickly. Mosaic was the first software to interpret a new IMG tag, and to display graphics along with text. Image became one of the most used features of the web,
  • Bluetooth

    Bluetooth
    SourceSandard for the short-range wireless interconnection of cellular phones, computers, and other electronic devices
  • Google opened its first office

    Google opened its first office
    Source Google opened its first office in 1998. The office was in California.
  • IPod

    IPod
    SourceIPod is a line of portable media players. The IPod was released 8 1/2 months after iTunes.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Source Youtube was launched in 2005. It is a video-sharing website head quarted in San Bruno, California. It was created by some former Paypal employees and then owned by Google .
  • Android

    Android
    SourceAndriod is a operating system. It was devoloped by google.