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1947-1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley: First commercial computer and able to pick presidential winners.
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1958- Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce: they created the chip. http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
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1962- Steve Russell and MIT: the first computer game.
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1964- Douglas Engelbart: he created the mouse.
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1976-1977 (Apple I, II) the first consumer computers.
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1984- (Apple Macintosh Computer) The more affordable home computer with a GUI.
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1985- Microsoft begins the friendly war with Apple.
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1986- Pixar is founded. Pixar was originally called the Special Effects Computer Group at Lucas film (launched in 1979). The group created the computer animated segments of films such as “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Young Sherlock Holmes.”
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1986- Daniel Hillis of Thinking Machines Corp. moved artificial intelligence a step forward when he developed the controversial concept of massive parallelism in the Connection Machine. The machine used up to 65,536 processors and could complete several billion per second.
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1987- Motorola unveiled the 68030 microprocessor. A step from the 68020, it built on a 32- bit enhanced microprocessor. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
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1987- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who left Apple to form his own company, unveiled the NeXT. The computer he created failed but was recognized as an important innovation. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
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1987- Pixar’s “Tin Toy” became the first computer- animated film to win an Academy Award, taking the Oscar for best animated short film.
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1989- Intel released the 80486 microprocessor and the i860 RISC/ coprocessor chip, each of which contained more than 1 million transistors.
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1989- Motorola announced the 68040 microprocessor, with about 1.2 million transistors. Due to technical difficulties, it didn’t ship until 1991.
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1989- Maxis released SimCity, a video game that helped launch of series of simulators. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
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1990- Video Toaster is introduced by NewTek. The video Toaster was video editing and production system for Amiga line of computers and included a hardware and special software. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
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1990- Microsoft shipped Windows 3.0 on May 22 compatible with DOS programs, the first successful version of Windows finally offered good enough performance to satisfy PC users. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
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1991- Pretty Good Privacy was introduced. -http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/-
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2004- Facebook is an online social networking service. Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
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2012- Facebook acquired Instagram for 1000 thousands of dollars (9 April). -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook-
