The History Of Computers By greeneggsandjan Jan 1, 1936 First freely programmable computer. Jan 1, 1944 The Harvard Mark 1 computer. Jan 1, 1953 IBM enters into 'The History of Computers'. Jan 1, 1954 The first successful high level programming language. Jan 1, 1955 The first bank industry computer - also MICR for reading checks. Jan 1, 1962 The first computer game invented. Jan 1, 1969 The original Internet. Jan 1, 1971 The" Floppy" disc was invented Jan 1, 1979 Word Processers Were Invented Jan 1, 1983 The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.