computor and internet history from 1940 to 2024

By henry lawson

  • invention of transistor

    invention of transistor
    America telephone and telegraph

  • first computer game

    first computer game
    pong

  • first hard drive

    first hard drive
    The world's first hard disk drive was the IBM Model 350 Disk File.

  • first mouse

    first mouse
    Development of the mouse began in the early 1960s by SRI International's Douglas Engelbart, while he was exploring the interactions between humans and computers

  • arpanet

    arpanet
    he first public packet-switched computer network.

  • floppy disk

    floppy disk
    a flexible removable magnetic disk.

  • invention of email

    invention of email
    Ray Tomlinson, of BBN, sent the first message across the network in 1971, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine.

  • the first home computer

    the first home computer
    Kenbak-1 as the first personal computer. Designed in 1971, before microprocessors were invented

  • apple 1 released

    apple 1 released
    he Apple Computer 1, later known predominantly as the Apple I(written with a Roman numeral), is an 8-bit motherboard-only personal computer designed by Steve Wozniak.

  • first laptop

    first laptop
    The Osborne 1 was accepted as the first true mobile computer (laptop, notebook) by most historians.

  • first browser war

    first browser war
    occurred between proponents of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

  • google made

    google made
    Towards the end of the 1990s, two doctoral students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, developed a search engine called “Backrub.” Their goal was to improve the accuracy of search results on the Internet, thus revolutionizing online navigation.

  • facebook

    facebook
    On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.

  • first iphone

    first iphone
    The iPhone (retroactively referred to as the iPhone 2G or iPhone 1) is the first iPhone model and the first smartphone developed and marketed by Apple Inc.

  • Facebook reaches 500 million users

    Facebook reaches 500 million users
    The company announced 500 million users in July 2010. Half of the site's membership used Facebook daily, for an average of 34 minutes, while 150 million users accessed the site from mobile devices. A company representative called the milestone a "quiet revolution".