The History of Technology

IBM Computer Hardware Company

Jun 16, 1911

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM The IBM started as a small company back in 1911 but it has turned into a multi-million company. There headquaters are in Armonk, New York. They were created merging three companies and now thye make omputer hardware.

Hewlett Packard

Jan 1, 1939

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1939 Now this is presently HP. It was founded in a California garage. They made the HP 200A Audio Oscillator. which became a test equimpment for people like Walt Disney.

First Computer

Feb 14, 1946

www.seas.upenn.edu/about-seas/eniac/ The first computer was the ENIAC. It is the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was the first comuter and also the first thing to do mathematical task too difficult for humans.

The Baby

Jun 21, 1948

http://www.computer50.org/mark1/new.baby.html This computer the Manchester Small Scale Experiment Machine was nicknamed Baby. This computer school hold more then computers in the past. It could hold up to 2500 bits. These bits would have to be reset by hand.

MIT's Whirlwind

Apr 20, 1951

http://museum.mit.edu/150/21 The MIT Whirlwind was first turned on April 20, 1951. It was the first digital computer to operate in real time. In was created for WW2 but it was finished until three years after the final battle.

PDP-8

Mar 22, 1965

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1965 This computer was the first minicomputer. It had incrediable speed and its smaller size helped many people. It cost 18,000. Since it had a reasonable priceand size many labatories and companies began to buy them.

ARPANET

Apr 7, 1969

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET The ARPANET is the advanced research projects agency network. It was the first operating packet switch network, which will become the internet. It was created bu the U.S Department of Defense for military purposes.

Ethernet

Sep 30, 1980

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet The Ethernet is a computer networking technology for local area and long distances. It was standard in 1983 but it was finsihedd in 1980. It completely changed wire technology.

Apple- Lisa

Jan 19, 1983

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa This was the ifrst computer created by Apple and it cost 1,000 dollars. This was one of the first computers aimed for personal or business use instead of scientific. This is where buying house-hold computers began.

First Working Bluetooth

Jan 1, 1997

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth Bluetooth was made in 1994 but was wonrking till 1997. It is good for retrieving data up to 60 meters away. It is used for radios, headsets, and ipods.

Microsoft Word

Jan 1, 2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word Word is a microsoft program that lets you type thingss like notes and documents. It cost $44.99 to dowload on your computer or tablet and it has had many updates

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook Facebook is the number one social networking service in the world. It was created by college students and now is worth 7.87 billion dollars and it has almost 2 billion users.

Twitter

Mar 26, 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter Twitter is a social-networking site who lets people share 140 letter messages called tweets. Twitter is now worth $667million dollars.

Instagram

Oct 6, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram Instagram is a social- networking site or app that allows you to post pictures and share with folowers. It was developed by the Facebook Industries.

Snapchat

Sep 4, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat Snapchat is a social app where you can send pictures to your friends and upload to a story. It was developed by Evan Spigel.