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created a calculation rule, which has been used by engineers until a few years ago.
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Blaise Pascal builds the first mechanical calculator that did addition and subtraction.
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Gottfried Leibnitz creates a machine that is capable of multiplication.
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Charles Babbage designs but does not build a processing machine capable of running computer programs.
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Samuel Morse creates the telegraph.
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Boolean algebra is born from the hand of George Boole. Studies of symbolic logic begin.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the phone.
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, a device capable of reproducing sounds.
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Hermann Hollerith uses a mechanical punch as a way to represent letters and digits using paper cards. Later, in 1924, he would be the founder of IBM.
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Marconi manages to transmit radio signal from Comualles to Newfoundland.
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During the Christmas Eve of 1906 the first radio transmission is made.
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The first television signal is transmitted.
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The BBC and CBS make the first public television broadcasts.
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Experiments are developed to transmit color images.
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Konrad Suze presents the first programmable electromagnetic computer with a perforated tape. It is the Z3 and had 2,000 electromagnets, 64 words of 22 bits of memory, 1,000 kilos of weight and a consumption of 4,000 watts. Performing a sum cost 0.7 seconds, while a multiplication or division cost 3 seconds.
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Alan Turing builds the Colossus, a computer that allows you to decipher the secret messages of the Nazis in World War II in a few seconds.
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John PresperEckert and John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator). It is considered as the first computer, since it worked completely electronically.
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John Von Neumann creates the EDVAC. He had the idea of putting the instructions in the same memory as the data. I wrote them in binary code. This is known as Von Neumman Architecture.
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First commercial computer is born. It is UNIVAC 1, which was developed by the Howard Aiken Sperry-Rand Corporation and was purchased by the United States Census Bureau. His memory was 1,000 words and he was able to read magnetic tapes.
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The first home video recorder appears.
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John Backus and his colleagues at IBM created the first Fortran, the first programming language.
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BELL manufactures the first modem that allows the transmission of binary data through simple telephone lines.
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First theory about the use of packet switching to transfer data.
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ARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. There J.C.R. Licklider successfully defends his ideas about a global computer network.
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The 1st conference about ARPANET takes place.
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Four universities are connected to ARPANET and Bell Labs develops Unix.
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Intel manufactures and launches the first silicon microprocessor. It is the Intel 4004. It was created to perform basic Babbage operations according to the von Neumann architecture. It is the first CPU. At the same time, IBM invents the floppy disk, a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. Meanwhile 23 computers connect to ARPANET and the first email is sent.
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Norway and England join the Internet with one computer each. Meanwhile, the use of digital signals to transmit data using optical fiber is proposed.
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The Altair 8800, the first desktop computer, with an Intel 8080 microprocessor appears. It had no keyboard, no monitor, or any application software.
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It is the beginning of what is now Apple. Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak wanted to manufacture and market a computer for mass use. Wozniak was able to design a board capable of supporting all the necessary components and created the Basic programming language. They got the first Apple computer. By the end of 1976 they had already prepared the following model, the Apple II. That same year Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft.
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The Tandy company creates the TRS 80 I with external peripherals. It is marketed by its Radio Shack stores since the late 70s and during the 80s.
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Commodore develops and markets the best-selling desktop computer worldwide.
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American students create the NewsGroups.
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Commodore 64 appears.
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The first of the "Personal Computer" is born. The first of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. The IBM 5150. In addition, the TCP / IP protocol and the word Internet are defined.
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The 1st site name server is created. Motorola introduces the first mobile phone. The DynaTAC 8000X.
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1000 computers connected to the Internet.
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10,000 computers connected to the Internet.
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100,000 computers connected to the Internet and a prototype of the World Wide Web is created.
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ARPANET disappears.
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The World Wide Web (WWW) is made official and a fiber optic transmission is tested at a speed of 4 gigabytes per second.
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1,000,000 computers connected to the Internet. Motorola creates the first portable digital mobile.
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The Mosaic Internet browser appears, and the first Internet search engine is called Wandex. The IBM Simon becomes the first mobile phone that integrates PDA functions.
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WebCrawler, Lycos and Excite Internet search engines appear!
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AltaVista and Yahoo! Internet search engines appear
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10,000,000 computers connected to the Internet. The Nokia 9000 Communicator becomes the smartphone and integrated an Intel 386 CPU.
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Google makes its appearance.
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The 1st digital book appears.
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LinkedIn is launched as the first professional social network in history. This year also appear MySpace and Hi5.
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Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo, Tagged and the first Google social network called Orkut appear.
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YouTube, DailyMotion and Reddit is created.
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Twitter and Badoo appear.
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The iPhone makes its appearance.
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WhatsApp and the Microsoft Bing Internet search engine are created.
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Instagram, Pinterest and Google Buzz appear.
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Google Plus appears.
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Google reaches the world of smartphones with the Google Nexus 6P.
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Autonomous vehicles arrive
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Samsung launches the first virtual reality viewer
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Google is consolidated in universal medical and higher education
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Artificial intelligence is standardized for smartphones
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Drones and autonomous cars are patented and used for everyone.
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Implementation of 5G technology for a large part of the world.
