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World's Computers

By adam droptiny

  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    This was the first real way people could communicate long distance without seeing each other in person. It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.

  • 1940's

    1940's
    The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed. In 1939, Bell Telephone Laboratories completed this calculator, designed by researcher George Stibitz.

  • 1950's

    1950's
    At MIT, Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory on the Whirlwind computer. Core memory made computers more reliable, faster, and easier to make. Such a system of storage remained popular until the development of semiconductors in the 1970s.

  • 1960's

    1960's
    IBM announced the System/360, a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together.

  • Networking Invented

    Networking Invented
    In the summer of 1968, the Network Working Group (NWG) held its first meeting chaired by Elmer Shapiro with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with attendees: Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton. In the meeting the group discussed solving issues related to getting hosts to communicate with each other.

  • 1970's

    1970's
    The first advertisement for a microprocessor, the Intel 4004, appeared in Electronic News. Developed for Busicom, a Japanese calculator maker, the 4004 had 2250 transistors and could perform up to 90,000 operations per second in four-bit chunks.

  • 1980's

    1980's
    IBM introduced its PC, igniting a fast growth of the personal computer market. The first PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor and used Microsoft´s MS-DOS operating system.

  • 1990's

    1990's
    Netscape Communications Corporation is founded. Netscape was originally founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation in April of 1994 by Marc Andreessen, Jim Clark and others.

  • Promethean Board

    Promethean Board
    The promethean boards are used in classes all around the world used my teachers everywhere. Promethean boards use pens as a giant whiteboard. It is easier for them to do things and you hook it up to computers.

  • iMac

    iMac
    The iMac is a computer also made by the Apple company and is mainly used for playing games while Windows is usually for business. The iMac has had millions of buyers.

  • iPhone

    iPhone
    The iPhone 4s was designed by Apple (a company that makes computers). It has now made five and and they keep making millions of dollars off of them. The "s" stands for siri which is a personal assister that helps people.

  • Word

    Word
    Word is used to write documents and organize information used for anything except really playing games. Schools use it all the time and write essays on it.