History of Computing

Telex Messaging Network comes online World Brains Model K Elektro and Sparko Konrad Zuse Finishes the Z3 Computer The Three Laws of Robotics The First Bombe was Completed A Logical Calculas of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity Bell Labs Relay Interpolator is completed Curt Herzstark designs Curta calculator Project Whirlwind Begins John von Neumann writes First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC First actual case of bug being found Manchester Mark I Williams-Kilburn Tube Birth of the Modem EDSAC Magnetic Core Memory The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) First ColossusOperational at Bletchley Park Harvard Mark 1 Public Unveiling of Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) First Computer Program to run on a Computer Turing Test The Pilot Ace Computer became Operational UNIVAC Whirlwind First Business online - Lyons Electronic Office hi Hii CSIRAC - first computer to be used as a musical instrument 100 Computers in the world FORTRAN - first ever programming language to be created The NORC delivered to US Navy Steve Jobs is born MIT introduce the Whirlwind machine Tim Berners-Lee is born Bill Gates is born The ENIAC was turned off for the last time Possibility of keyboards were investigated The Librascope GP-30 - Earliest personal computer MIT researchers developed the TX-0 RAMAC was also developed First computer scanned image made. Casio - releasing the world's first electronic calculator John von Neumann dies Digital phone lines came into use LG Electronics are founded Integrated circuit is successfully demonstrated William Higinbotham creates the second ever "videogame" COBOL is released Richard Brodie is born COBOL was made Quicksort was made Timesharing- the first online communities The idea of Virtual Memory Atlas computer debuts The First Robotic Arm Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny create BASIC AlphaVille was released Simula was Developed and Released DENDRAL First 16-bit model Carterfone The Brown Box ELIZA HP released their first computer People's view on the potential of technology changed The IBM 1360 was created LOGO "A Space Odyssey" CICS The IBM Minnow NLS System was created Read-Only Rope Memory was introduced Unix was created Victor Scheinman’s Stanford Arm PASCAL Pong C - programming language UNIX Micral N TCP/IP Ethernet Cray-1 Hard Disk Drive 3.5 inch Floppy Disk MS DOS IBM'S PC Film Animated Scenes Comordor 64 Road to Point Reyes MS Word CD ROM Flash Memory Apple MAC C++ The NES is released in America Michael Dell Steve Jobs is forced out of Apple Pixar Founded SCSI-1 was introduced The hacker manifesto is published The Erlang and Oberon programming languages are released Connor CP340A hard disk drive was released GSM standard is formally agreed Perl was written by Larry Wall The GIF standard was introduced by CompuServe Tin Toy Steve jobs releases the NeXT Cube Sound Blaster The Macintosh portable is released The Game Boy Girl First internet Provider First person charged for computer fraud and misuse Intel brought out the 80486 microprocessor Opportunity and Spirit Mars Rovers NASA Ames Research Centre Supercomputer Columbia Nintendo Wii comes out First Camera Phone Introduced USB Flash Drive Y2K Bug Bit Torrent Launched Mac OS X released DARPA's Centibots project Earth Simulator Blu-ray Hitachi Deskstar 7k100 Nvida releases CUDA GPU Scratch Released Apple iPhone Cloud based network attached storage solutions