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Napier´s rods
John Napier, the Scottish inventor of logarithms, invented Napier´s rods,(sometimes called "Napier's bones") c. 1610 to simplify the task of multiplication. -
Analytical engine
Charles Babbage invents the analytical engine, it was a design for a mechanical computer. -
First computer algorithm
Ada Lovelace developes the first computer algorithm. The algoritms that solves our diary problems -
Modern punched card
Herman Hollerith invented the modern punched card for use in a machine he designed -
The EDVAC
Mauchly, Eckert, and John von Neumann were already at work designing a stored-program electronic computer, the EDVAC. Von Neumann's report, "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", was very influential and contains many of the ideas still used in most modern digital computers, including a mergesort routine. Eckert and Mauchly went on to build UNIVAC. -
Electronic computer
John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry designed and built an electronic computer for solving systems of linear equations, but it never worked properly. -
The first programmable digital computer
Konrad Zuse invents Z3, the first programmable digital computer. -
The invention of the transistor
by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley transformed the computer and made possible the microprocessor revolution. For this discovery they won the 1956 Nobel Prize (Shockley later became notorious for his racist views.) -
The first oprational computer network
The first operational computer network and ancestor of the Internet, 1968: DARPA creates ARPAnet,the first operational computer network and ancestor of the Internet. -
Internet
The dawn of the Internet age, a net of comunications of high velocity -
CRAY-1
The 1970's also saw the rise of the supercomputer.Seymour Cray designed the CRAY-1 which was first shipped in March 1976. It could perform 160 million operations in a second. The Cray XMP came out in 1982. Cray research was taken over by Silicon Graphics. -
Personal computer
Kenbak-1, the first personal computer, is sold in the USA. -
The first email is sent.
The first email is sent, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. -
The first Laptop.
The first Laptop ( Osborne 1 ), The laptop is a computer that you can take it wherever you want. -
Computer viruses
The first computer viruses are developed c. 1981. The term was coined by Leonard Adleman, now at the University of Southern California. -
Osborne I
the first truly successful portable computer was marketed, the Osborne I. -
hotmail arrives.
Hotmail arrives. Is a free web-based email service run by Microsoft. -
Google is founded.
Google is founded . Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. -
Youtube goes online.
Youtube goes online. Youtube is a website in which users can view and upload videos -
Microchip
Scientists cultivated brain cells on a microchip, advancing neurochip technology.
