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The Z1 Computer
At the beginning of World War 2, Konrad Zuse, a construction engineer at the Henschel Aircraft Company in Berlin, Germany, designed a computer to help him with his engineering calculations called the Z1 which was the first binary computer. -
The Harvard MARK 1 Computer
Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper both designed the MARK 1 in 1944. The computer made a lot of clicking noises and was 55 feet long, 8 feet high, and weighed about 5 tons. This computer contained almost 760,000 separate pieces and was used by the US Navy for gunnery and ballistic calculations. This computer was capable of carrying out addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and referencing to previous results. This computer took about 3-5 seconds for a multiplication operation. -
The Transistor
John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, were all inventors of the transistors. Transistors were made of semiconductors that replaced bulky unreliable vacuum tubes in a computer. Computers would still perform the same functions but using less power and space. -
The Williams Tube
Sir Frederick Williams and Tom Kilburn co-invented the Williams Tube which. Scientists did research on cathode-ray tubes which served as computer data storage since the early 1940s. The Williams Tube was the first invention of Random Access Memory (RAM), which was a convenient way to store data. This made programming the computer much easier and faster and did not require rewiring each time the data was changed. -
The IBM 701
IBM co-founded the Mark 1 computer in 1944 together with Harvard University. In 1952, IBM developed the IBM 701 EDPM, which, according to IBM, was the first commercially successful general-purpose computer. the computer was made to act like a “defense calculator” to aid in the United Nations’ policing of Korea. -
ERMA
ERMA was invented, during the early 1950’s by researchers at the Stanford Research Institute. ERMA stands for Electronic Recording Method of Accounting and began as a project for Bank of America to computerize the banking industry. ERMA made the processing of checks and account management easier and automatically updated and posted checking accounts. -
The Integrated Circuit
The integrated circuit is one of the most important inventions of mankind. Almost all modern products use chip technology. Jack Kilby worked with Texas Instruments and they both recieved patents for the miniaturized electronic circuit. Then, Robert Noyce, who worked with the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, recieved patents for a silicon based integrated circuit. -
Inventor of the Mouse
Douglas Englebart, the inventor of the modern mouse, has over 45 other patents in his name. While Eglebart was working at his own lab called the Augmentation Research Center, Stanford Research Institute, he dedicated himself to creating a hypermedia groupware system called NLS which was for oNLine System. Most of his accomplishments were the computer mouse and windows, were part of NLS. -
CompuServe
CompServe was the first major commercial internet service provider for the public in the United States. -
First Recieved Email
Then, in 1971, the first email was received. Then there was two computer hobbyists that created a bulletin board system that notified friends for meetings, making announcements and sharing information through postings. -
AOL Is Introduced
AOL was introduced to the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web was invented by a British engineer named Tim Berners-Lee. His intentions were not exactly to make the World wide Web as he worked at CERN ( European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland). -
Tripod is Introduced
Tripod was introduced as an open community for online college students and young adults. -
CERN
CERN made a donation to the WWW Technology for the world. Also in 1993, the first graphical browser was displayed by students at NCSA. -
GeoCities
Geocites was created for users to create their own websites. Today, Yahoo owns geocites and offers it only as a web hosting service for Japan. -
SixDegrees and other events
In 1997, many things happened. Blogging began, the Web had on million sites, SixDegrees.com let users create profiles and list their friends, Aol had a a chat feature, and Blackboard is founded as an online course management system for educators and learners. -
Google is introduced as a search engine.
Google opened as a major search engine. -
Wikipedia is introduced
Wikipedia was introduced as an informational site for others. people could also edit some of the information. -
Friendster
Friendster was opened up to the public in 2002 as a social networking site and grew to 3 million users in three months. -
Myspace
Myspace is launched and is a clone of Friendster. -
Facebook
Facebook launched as a online school for students and was considered the college version of Friendster. -
Youtube
Youtube started retrieving and storing videos for the public to view. -
Twitter
Twitter was launched mainly as a microblogging site that enabled members to send and receive 140-character messages that are commonly known today as tweets. -
Facebook
Facebook allowed third-party developers create apps for the site. -
Bebo
Facebook beat MySpace in the total number of monthly visitors. Then, Facebook tries to buy Twitter but was unsuccessful. AOL buys Bebo and then later sells the site due to it being unsuccessful. -
Bing
Bing was created by Microsoft and Bing joined up with Yahoo and Google as major search engines over the internet. -
Instagram
Instagram is mobile application that allows you to take videos and and pics and post them onto social media sites.
