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Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse was a construction engineer for the Aircraft Company in Berlin at the beginning of WWII. One of the most difficult aspects of doing a large calculation -
JOHN ATANASOFF AND CLIFFORD BERRY
Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were the first to patent a digital computing device, the ENIAC computer. A patent infringement case voided the ENIAC patent as a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention. Atanasoff was quite generous in stating, "there is enough credit for everyone in the invention and development of the electronic computer." Eckert and Mauchly received most of the credit for inventing the first electronic-digital computer. Historians now say that the Atanasoff-Berry computer was -
THE FIRST COMPUTER INVENTED
In 1946. The first computer was invented by ENIAC Inventors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. -
THE IBM ENTERS "THE HISTORY OF COMPUTERS"
The Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC was a computer milestone achieved by Dr. Presper Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly, the team that invented the ENIAC computer. John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, after leaving the academic environment of The Moore School of Engineering to start their own computer business, found their first client was the United States Census Bureau. The Bureau needed a new computer to deal with the exploding U.S. population (the beginning of the famous baby boom). In Apri -
THE FIRST MICROPROCESSOR
In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design, the only place to go was down -- in size that is. The Intel 4004 chip took the integrated circuit down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think (i.e. central processing unit, memory, input and output controls) on one small chip. -
NETWORKING
The ethernet is a system for connecting computers within a building using hardware running from machine to machine. It differs from the Internet, which connects remotely located computers by telephone line, software protocol and some hardware. Ethernet uses some software (borrowed from Internet Protocol), but the connecting hardware was the basis of the patent (#4,063,220) involving newly designed chips and wiring. The patent* describes ethernet as a "multipoint data communication system with co -
FIRST WORD PROCESSOR
Released in 1979 by Micropro International, WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program produced for microcomputers and the best selling software program of the early eighties. -
CD-ROM
Philips introduces the CD-ROM. -
WWW
The World Wide Web (WWW) is born after researcher Tim Berners-Lee develops HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language. -
Microsoft And Intel
Microsoft releases the first mainstream 32-bit operating system Windows 95 in huge numbers. Intel releases the first processor in their P6 family called the Pentium Pro processor in 1995. -
Windows 98
Google is co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they are students at Stanford University. The company is first incorporated as a privately held company in September of 1998. Microsoft releases Windows 98. Intel releases their Celeron processor which is basically a low-cost version of the Pentium II processor of the time. -
The 1GHz Milestone
The 1GHz milestone is hit when both Intel and AMD introduce processors running at 1GHz. -
Google & Facebook
Google indexed more than 8 billion pages on the web. Facebook (limited to Harvard students only) started this year. -
Youtube
YouTube, the first video sharing site came online in 2005 and has grown to one of the most popular sites on the web. YouTube used more bandwidth in 2010 than the entire internet did in 2000.
