The History of IT

HP2115A Released

Sep 9, 1966

HP Releases the HP2115A the first business computer

Apollo 7 launch

Oct 11, 1968

The Apollo guidance system is unveiled as Apollo 7 orbits the earth

UNIX developed

Sep 12, 1969

AT&T Bell laboratories develops the UNIX operating system

First Email sent

Oct 8, 1971

the first email was sent via the military network ARPANET, its contents were, "QWERTYUIOP"

PONG released

Sep 9, 1972

one of the first widely available videogames PONG is released nationally, proving to be extremely popular and launching video games into the mainstream

The Queen sends her first Email

Mar 11, 1976

Queen Elizabeth II sends her first Email

Apple founded

Apr 1, 1976

Steve Wozniak develops the Apple-I computer and joins with his best friend Steve Jobs to found Apple Computer, INC

Atari 2600 released

Sep 11, 1977

Atari releases the Atari VCS (shortly after renamed the Atari 2600) which sells over 20 million units throughout the 80's

IBM PC

Nov 21, 1981

IBM introduces its first personal computer

MS-DOS released

Nov 21, 1981

MS-DOS, the first Microsoft operating system, is released to go with the IBM PC

TIME magazine names computer "Machine of the Year"

Dec 31, 1982

TIME magazine writes "Several human candidates might have represented 1982, but none symbolized the past year more richly, or will be viewed by history as more significant, than a machine: the computer."

Macintosh released

Jan 24, 1984

Apple releases the macintosh, the first affordable PC to use a GUI (graphical user interface)

WWW

Aug 10, 1991

The World Wide Web was born when Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML

Yahoo founded

Nov 13, 1994

Yahoo started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed. Yahoo would quickly expand to become one of the Internet’s most popular search engines.

ITA

Jul 1, 1997

An international treaty governing the trade of information technology goes into effect

Google!

Nov 9, 1998

Google founded, rapidly becomes the most popular search engine on the webternet

WI-FI

Sep 10, 1999

Wireless internet developed

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

the 9/11 terrorist attacks usher in a new era of information collection with the department of homeland security monitoring most forms of communication, including the internet.

Digital Satellite Radio

Oct 13, 2001

Digital satellite radio developed

Multi core processors

Feb 9, 2005

processors with multiple cores allow smaller computers to be faster than ever

Net Neutrality repealed

Sep 11, 2014

The FCC repeals net neutrality, allowing companies to slow down sites unless they pay hefty fees for "fastlane" access