The History of Computers

  • The Colossus's begining

    The Colossus was a computer created in the First World War to help the Allies. it was opperational at bletchley park on 5th febuary 1944.
  • The Colossus computers' uses

    The reason the Colossus computers were created was to help decrypt radio teleprinter messages.
  • Colossus Mark 2

    The Colossus Mark 2 was first working on 1st June 1944. it could shift registers at five times the speed of The Colossus Mark 1.
  • when was the first comutor game invented

    The physicist Willaim Higinbotham created the first video game. it was a simple game which was similar to the 1970's game of pong. higinbotham was born on the 25th October 1910 in a place called Brigeport
  • The Magnavox Odessey is First Demonstrated

  • spectrum ZX80 is launched

  • windows 1.0 is relased

    The fist version of windows is released. It was built to compete with Apple's opperating system. It was not a complete opperating system and did not get much popualitary.It was made up of many components including calendar, clock, calculator, cardfile, clipboard view, control panel, note pad, paint, reversi and more.
  • When was netflights founded

    it was founded in 1992 as airline networks. it was a privately owned company till 2008 when it was taken over byt the Thomas Cook Group
  • when the first playstation was introduced

    it was first launched in Japan. it was the first gaming console to sell 100 million units by 9 years and six months after it was introduced. it was invented by Ken Kutaragi. he was a sony executive and was later dubbed as "the father of Playstation." it was built to rival nintendo's technology. it was one of the first hand held games consoles
  • when neflix was first invented

    It is an online DVD or video provider. it started by only streaming to North America and parts of Europe and sending DVDs in North America via postal serivces. It's headquarters are in California. it was started by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. the idea came to hastings after he had to pay a fine for an overdue DVD. Now neflix has over 10 million subcribers and 100,000 titles to loan.
  • When was lastminute.com founded

    it was founed by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman
  • When was iglu founded

    Richard Downs founded Iglu in 1998. It initially focused on ski and quickly became the UK's leading retailer of packaged ski holidays. In 2006 the company entered the UK cruise retail market and is now the largest online cruise agent in the UK.
  • When was expedia founded

    it was founded as a division of microsoft before being sold to ticketmaster in 2001.
  • When was Ctrip founded

    Shanghai-based Ctrip was founded by James Liang, Neil Shen, Min Fan, and Ji Qi in 1999.
  • Neflix starts it subscription based services

    neflixs starts to have members subscribe to a monthly fee.
  • When was bookit.com founded

    The company was founded in 2000 by current President and CEO Arthur "Bud" Finlaw.BookIt.com enables users to plan and book travel products including hotel, cruise, airline, activities, car, and vacation packages. It operates in more than 100 destinations worldwide and maintains offices throughout the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.[
  • the second playstation was released

    by this time the first playstation was very populatr
  • xbox was invented

    the first xbox was introduced on 15 novenber 2001 in the United States.
  • When Facebook was launched

    it was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. it was initially limited to Harvard students.
  • when facebook expanded for the first time

    in March 2004 Facebook expanded to include the universities of Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.
  • when Trivago was invented

    The idea of trivago was invented in 2004 and launched in 2005 by three german partners: Peter Vinnemeier, Malte Siewert, and Rolf Schrömgens. it is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is a world wide company. Trivago compares hotel prices and the aspects of the hotel.
  • when youtube was invented

    it was made by 3 former paypal employes before google bought it off them. now it is used as a subsetion of google were people can upload and view videoes.
  • when twitter was created

    it was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass.
  • Twitter is created

    Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to message up to 140 character messages known as "tweets."
  • numbers of xbox sold

    by this date, just under 5 years after it was introduced it had sold over 24 million units
  • when twitter was launched

    it was at this date that twitter was launched. it rapidly gained popularity.
  • Twitter is launched

  • When Facebook allowed acesses to 13 year olds

    It was at this date that facebook allowed everyone above 13 acesses to facebook as a social networking site.
  • how many tweets per quarter

    By 2008 it had 100 million tweets posted every three months
  • when did facebook overtake myspace

    it was 4 years after facebook was launched that it finally overtook myspace as the leading social network.
  • when Twitter first allowed pictures and other updates

    it was at thisa time from septenber to october that twitter made a seris of updateds that included, seeing pictures without having to leave twitter. and being able to log out at any time from a little black bar at the top of the screes
  • The first driverless car created

    Google unveiled the first driverless car on this date. it can drive itself but also has manually controls incase someone whats to manually drive it.
  • prosthetic hands

    in 2015 Open Bionic created a low-cost robotic prosthetic hand. there goal is to now create a prosthetic hand under the price of 100 US dollars. they think that this is possible due to 3D printing and advancing materials.
  • robo-chef

    in 2015 there is a protoype of a robo-chef it capture the human movements while someone is cooking so it can copy them and cook dishes. it ggoes at a humans speed and even does the washing up. the company said in 2015 that it is a few years away from selling and that they want to add a frige and a dishwasher
  • the power of electricity

    in 2015 a bristol based university proved that you can make electricity through the use of urine, the scientist recon that it could revolutionise refugee camps enabling them to have electricity. i recon that by 2021 this eco-toliets will be used in refugee camps and possible poorer schools in places like africa for an example.
  • Fabric 3D printing

    in 2015 disney labs have created 3D printers that work by cutting and gluing layers of fabric to create a 3D object. It makes a felt or such matieral toy. i reckon that by 2025 we will have the materials and technology to 3D print durable toys that don't fall apart after a few weeks.