Liang Ling-Can: Liang Ling-Can invents the first fully mechanical clock
invents the first fully mechanical clock
Jan 1, 1492
Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci depict inventions such as flying machines, including a helicopter, the first mechanical calculator and one of the first programmable robots
John Napier: John Napier invents a system of moveable rods (Napier's Rods) based on logarithms which was able to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots
William Oughtred: William Oughtred develops slide rules
Calculating Clock: Invented by Wilhelm Schickard
Blaise Pascal: Blaise Pascal invents the the "Pascaline", a mechanical adding machine
Gottfried Leibniz: Gottfried Leibniz is known as one of the founding fathers of calculus
Joseph-Marie Jacquard: Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automatic loom controlled by punched cards
Arithmometer: The Arithmometer was the first mass-produced calculator invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
Charles Babbage: Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer
Analytical Engine: The Analytical Engine was invented by Charles Babbage
Morse code: Samuel Morse invents Morse code
Boolean algebra: Boolean algebra is invented by George Boole
Tabulating Machine: Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard invent the Tabulating Machine
William Stanley Jevons: William Stanley Jevons designs a practical logic machine
Ramon Verea: Ramon Verea invents a fast calculator with an internal multiplication table
Alexander Graham Bell: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone called the Photophone
Comptometer: The Comptometer is an invention of Dorr E. Felt which is operated by pressing keys
Herman Hollerith: Herman Hollerith invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters
Guglielmo Marconi: Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
Tabulating Machine Company: Herman Hollerith forms the Tabulating Machine Company which later becomes IBM
Nikola Tesla: Remote control was invented by Nikola Tesla
Lee De Forest: Lee De Forest invents the electronic tube
IBM: IBM is formed on June 15, 1911
Philo Farnsworth: Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth
John Logie Baird: Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird
Vannevar Bush: Vannevar Bush develops a partly electronic Difference Engine
Kurt Godel: Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of a universal formal language
Alan Turing: Alan Turing develops the concept of a theoretical computing machine
Konrad Zuse: Konrad Zuse creates the Z1 Computer a binary digital computer using punch tape
George Stibitz: George Stibitz develops the Complex Number Calculator - a foundation for digital computers
Hewlett Packard: William Hewlett and David Packard start Hewlett Packard
John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry develop the ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer) prototype
Enigma: Adolf Hitler uses the Enigma encryption machine
Colossus: Alan Turing develops the the code-breaking machine Colossus
Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper: Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University
ENIAC: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
John Logie Baird: Electro Mechanical television system was invented by John Logie Baird Walther Bothe: Walther Bothe develops the logic gate
ENIAC: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly develop the ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
F.C. Williams: F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM
F.C. Williams: F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM
F.C. Williams: F.C. Williams develops his cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM
Douglas Engelbart: Douglas Engelbart theorises on interactive computing with keyboard and screen display instead of on punchcards
Andrew Donald Booth: Andrew Donald Booth invents magnetic drum memory
Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn: Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn develop the SSEM "Small Scale Experimental Machine" digital CRT storage which was soon nicknamed the "Baby"
Claude Shannon: Claude Shannon builds the first machine that plays chess
Howard Aiken: Howard Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III
Hideo Yamachito: The first electronic computer is created in Japan by Hideo Yamachito.
Alan Turing: Alan Turing publishes his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence which helps create the Turing Test.
LEO: T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co.
LEO: T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons develop the first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) at Lyons Co.
EDVAC: The EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) begins performing basic tasks. Unlike the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal
The IBM 701 becomes available and a total of 19 are sold to the scientific community
John Backus & IBM: John Backus & IBM develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
Bell Labs introduces its first transistor computer
Optical fiber was invented by Basil Hirschowitz, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss
Sputnik I and Sputnik II: Sputnik I and Sputnik II are launched by the Russians
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NASA is formed
Silicon chip: The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
Paul Baran: Paul Baran theorises on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack", digital technology and symbiosis between humans and machines
COBOL: The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.
Unimate: General Motors puts the first industrial robot, Unimate, to work in a New Jersey factory.
The first computer game: The first computer game Spacewar Computer Game invented BY Steve Russell & MIT
The Computer Mouse: Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end)
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange among computers.
Word processor: IBM introduces the first word processor
BASIC: John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC)
Hypertext: Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"
Floppy Disk: IBM creates the first floppy disk
Seymour Cray: Seymour Cray develops the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer
Seymour Cray: Seymour Cray develops the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer
ARPANET: The U.S. Department of Defense sets up the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET ) this network was the first building blocks to what the internet is today but originally with the intention of creating a computer network that could
RAM: Intel introduces the world's first available dynamic RAM ( random-access memory) chip and the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
E-mail: E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson
Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ): Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) was invented by James Fergason
Pocket calculator: Pocket calculator was invented by Sharp Corporation
Floppy Disk: Floppy Disk was invented by David Noble with IBM - Nicknamed the "Floppy" for its flexibility.
First Video Game: Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video game
First Video Game: Atari releases Pong, the first commercial video gameThe CD: The compact disc is invented in the United States
Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs: Robert Metcalfe creates the Ethernet, a local-area network (LAN) protocol
Personal computer: The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers
Gateways: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers to negotiate between the various national networks
SQL: IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL
Microsoft Corporation: The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
WYSIWYG: Charles Simonyi coins the term WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) to describe the ability of being able to display a file or document exactly how it is going to be printed or viewed
Portable computers: Altair produces the first portable computer
Apple: Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
Apple Computer’s Apple II, the first personal computer with color graphics, is demonstrated
MODEM: Ward Christensen writes the programme "MODEM" allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a phone line
Magnetic tape: The first magnetic tape is developed in the US
Over half a million computers are in use in the United States.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates: IBM hires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to create an operating system for a new PC. They buy the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template to develop DOS.
Microsoft: MS-DOS Computer Operating System increases its success
WordPerfect: WordPerfect Corporation introduces WordPerfect 1.0 a word processing program
Commodore 64: The Commodore 64 becomes the best-selling computer of all time.
SMTP: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is introduced
More than 10 million computers are in use in the United States
Domain Name System (DNS): Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, net, org and int.
Domain Name System (DNS): Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge. Seven 'top-level' domain names are initially introduced: edu, com, gov, mil, net, org and int.
Apple Macintosh: Apple introduces the Macintosh with mouse and window interface
Cyberspace: William Gibson coins the word cyberspace when he publishes Neuromancer
Paul Brainard: Paul Brainard introduces Pagemaker for the Macintosh creating the desktop publishing field
Nintendo: The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
More than 30 million computers are in use in the United States.
Microsoft introduces Microsoft Works
Perl: Larry Wall introduces Perl 1.0
Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.
The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee: Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet
Microsoft and IBM stop working together to develop operating systems
The World Wide Web: The World Wide Web is launched to the public on August 6, 1991
At the beginning of the year only 50 World Wide Web servers are known to exist
The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee to help with the development of common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web
YAHOO: YAHOO is created in April, 1994.
Java: Java is introduced
Amazon: Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
EBay: EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
Hotmail: Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
WebTV: WebTV is introduced
Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish
Microsoft acquires Hotmail
Google: Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 1998
Xbox: Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 2001.
PayPal is acquired by eBay
Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold
September 12: eBay acquires Skype
Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.
