The history ICT and Computing

1st computer

Jul 18, 1822

computer hope It was made by Charles Babbage, in 1822. It was called a 'Difference Engine', it was a automatic computing engine, not really like a computer now, it could perform mathematical calculations. it had six wheels which made it work. It looked very different to a computer now, it was very big and you could see all the the wires. I think that it could count as the 1st computer, but i dont think it really look like a computer and did the thing that we think computers do now.

first car stereo

Oct 13, 1920

thw history of cars first car stereo was made by Paul Galvin in the early 1920s, it consisted of a box for the radio, one for the speaker and several batteries.All together, the components weighed a loaded suitcase. The Nevertheless, one soon packed all into a wooden "suitcase" in order to be mobile.

the cloud

Nov 3, 1960

livedrive many people believe cloud computing is new however it was created in 1960's. A man called Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider or J.C.R created it.

1st apple mac

Jan 24, 1964

wikipediathe 1st mac was made on 24th jan 1964, it was called the Macintosh. Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh computer, It was populer with familys.

first game console

Oct 14, 1968

hongkaitMagnavox Odyssey, released in 1972 was the first video game console. It began development in 1968 by Ralph Baer under the code name "The Brown Box".

1st email ever sent

Nov 11, 1971

business insider The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. it was a program called ARPANET. It was the 1st program to send a email to a different user on a different computer.

pong

Nov 29, 1972

idea finder Allan Alcorn made pong, he made it on the 29th November 1972. it was based on a tennis game hitting the ball there and back.

first data protection act introduced

Nov 5, 1984

out-law.comThe first data protection act introduced the basic rules of registration for users of data and rights of access to that data for the individuals related to it.These rules and rights were revised and superseded by the Data Protection Act 1998 which came into force on 1st March 2000.

tomtom

Oct 15, 1991

wikipediatomytom is a Dutch company best known for being a global leader in navigation and mapping products. TomTom also creates GPS Sport Watches, as well as state of the art fleet management solutions and industry leading location based products. It is founders are Peter-Frans Pauwels, Pieter Geelen,Harold Goddijn, Corinne Vigreux, the head is in Amsterdam.

GeoCities

Aug 11, 1994

wikipediaGeocities, created in 1994, was one of the first social media sites. GeoCities was originally founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI).GeoCities is a web hosting service. Its currently only available in Japan. In 1999 GeoCities was acquired by Yahoo!; at that time it was the third-most visited Web site on the World Wide Web.

Expedia

Dec 25, 1996

expediaExpedia Inc. is the American-based parent company to several global online travel brands including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, trivago, Egencia etc. its original founder was Richard Barton. its founded by Redmond, Washington, United States.

Netlfix

Nov 28, 1997

wikipediait was first made to offer online movie rentals, it was made by Reed Hastings and co-founder of netflix Marc Randolph. it made monthly subscription, and carried adding more and more to the company. its now available in Europe.

wifi

Nov 28, 1999

wikipedia wifi is a local area wireless technology, ut allows you to use the internet. You can have it in your house and it can be used on ipads, phones,laptops...

wikipedia

Jan 15, 2001

wikipediait was launched on Monday 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. it is now used all over the world. As of October 2014, Wikipedia includes over 33.5 million freely usable articles in 287 languages that have been written by over 49 million registered users and numerous anonymous contributors worldwide.

linked in

Dec 26, 2002

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. In 2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million viewers

myspace

Aug 1, 2003

Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is a online social networking service, headquartered is in Menlo Park, California. It was made by Mark Zuckerberg and his collage roommates and Harvard University students, it was made in his room at university. You have to be at least 13 or over to have facebook.

flickr

Feb 16, 2004

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Its available in Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnames.

google maps

Feb 8, 2005

google Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (beta test), or with public transportation. the owner is google, and the co-founders is
Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen and Lars Rasmussen.

You Tube

Feb 14, 2005

wikipediayoutube was made on 14th Feb 2005, in San Bruno, California. it was created by three former PayPal employees, it is now owned by Google since 2006.

twitter

Mar 21, 2006

wikipediatwitter was made in 2006 and founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams. Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".

3D Animation

Nov 5, 2006

computer hope 3D Animation is quiet comon as a job now, it's requirements are you have to be very talented in design, also very creative. you have to use computer software so you also have to be good at computing. you might need to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and photoshop.

tumblr

Feb 15, 2007

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. the CEO is David Karp. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

Instagram

Oct 15, 2010

discoverinstagram was launched in october 2010, but it gained its popularity in nApril 2012. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.

snapchat

Jul 9, 2011

frobes It was made in 2012 and created by Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy. You can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. you can send them for 1-10 seconds.

4G

Nov 22, 2012

wikipedia4G is a a mobile communications standard intended to replace 3G, allowing wireless Internet access at a much higher speed. it was first lunched in 22nd 2012.