Technology History Project

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  • ENIAC invented

    ENIAC invented
    SourceENIAC was the first electronic computer invented by the US Army during WW2. ENIAC cost about five hundred thousand dollars to build. It was 1800 square feet.
  • IAS computers

    IAS computers
    IAS InformationJohn von Neumann's IAS computer became operational at the IAS (institue for Advanced Studies) in Princeton, N,J. Contract obliged the builders to share their designs with other research institutes. The resulted in a number of clones such as the Maniac and the ILLIAC.
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    ARPANET informationThe Arpanet was one of the world's first operational packet switching networks. The first network to implement TCP/IP, and the progenitor of what was to become the global internet. The network was funded by ARPA.
  • Alto

    Alto
    sourceAlto is the first work station built-in mouse for input. The Alto stored several files simultaneously in windows, offered menus and icons, and could lint to a local social network. Although Xerox ( the creator) never sold the Alto commercially, it gave a number of them to universities.
  • Apple I

    Apple I
    sourceThe original Apple compuer, also known as the apple I, or apple-1, is a personal computer released by the apple computer company in 1976. They were desigend and hand-built by Steve Wozinak. Wozinak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer.
  • Pacman

    Pacman
    sourcePacman is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. It was licensed for distribuion in the US by Midway and released in October 1980. It was one of the most popular games of the time and is still very popular
  • NES ( Nintendo Entertainment System

    NES ( Nintendo Entertainment System
    sourceThe NES is an 8-bit video game console that was developed and manufacured by Nintendo. It was initially released in Japan as the Famicon.
  • IBM and MIPS

    IBM and MIPS
    They released the first RISC-based workstations, the PC/RT and R2000- based systems. Reduced instruction set computers grew out of the work, including most base operations such as add, oad from memory, and store in memmory.
  • Pixar founded

    Pixar founded
    SourcePixar is founded. Pixar was originally called the Special Effecs COmputer Group at LUcasfilm. the group created computer animated segments of milms such as "star Trek 11: The Wrath of Khan" and " Young Sherlock Holmes." in 1986, Apple computer co- founder Steve Jobs paid 10 Million dollars to Lucasfilm to purchase the group and renamed it Pixar.
  • Sega Genesis

    Sega Genesis
    sourceThe Sega Genesis known as Mega Drive in most regions outside North America, is a 16- Bit video game console. Which was developed and sold by Sega Enterprises the makers of Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • The Game Boy

    The Game Boy
    SourceThe Game Boy is an 8-Bit handeheld video game device developed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North America in August 1989. It is the first handheld console.
  • Super Mario World

    Super Mario World
    SourceSuper Mario World is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a pack-in launch title for the SNES. It is the fifth game in the Super Mario series. The developement was led by Shigeru Miyamoto along with Takashi Tezuka.
  • Google

    Google
    sourceGoogle began in March 1996 as a research project by Larrry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University.in search of a sissertation theme, Page had been considering amoung other things exploring the mathematical properties of the WWW.
  • Bing

    Bing
    sourceBing previously known as live search, windows, live search, and is a web search enginge from microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009.
  • PS4

    PS4
    The Play Station 4 is a video game console from Sony Compter Entertainment. Announced as the succesor to the PS3 during a press confrence on 20th of February, 2013.